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Definition of Ametabolic
1. Adjective. Undergoing slight or no metamorphosis.
2. Adjective. Undergoing no (or only slight) metamorphosis.
Definition of Ametabolic
1. a. Not undergoing any metamorphosis; as, ametabolic insects.
Definition of Ametabolic
1. Adjective. Not undergoing any metamorphosis. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ametabolic
Literary usage of Ametabolic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Zoology for Junior Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson (1888)
"... insects are divided into three convenient, though perhaps not strictly natural,
sections, as follows :— Section I. ametabolic Insects. ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1906)
"... so that it is not impossible that their development may be ametabolic or at
least much abbreviated. This is most probable in some of the extreme forms ..."
3. Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1851)
"Lastly, the author has established the fact, that reproduction of lost parts
takes place in metabolic as well as in the ametabolic articulata. ..."
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