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Heterometabolic

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Adjective

1. heterometabolic, heterometabolous

(of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage

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Heterometabolic

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noun
insect development in which the young hatch in a form very similar to the adult and then mature without a pupal stage

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