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Definition of Hemimetabolic

1. Adjective. (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult.

Definition of Hemimetabolic

1. a. Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvæ differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.

Definition of Hemimetabolic

1. Adjective. (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings. ¹

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Medical Definition of Hemimetabolic

1. Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Hemimetabolic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The pupa? of the hemimetabolic insects, or those which undergo an incomplete ... These latter structures in the pupa state of hemimetabolic insects may ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americanaedited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1904)
"The pupae of the hemimetabolic insects, or those which undergo an incomplete ... These latter structures in the pupa state of hemimetabolic insects may ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"As these insects are " hemimetabolic " (see INSECTS), there is no quiescent stage ; they go on increasing rapidly in size, and as they approach the perfect ..."

4. Outlines of Zoology by John Arthur Thomson, Marion Isabel Newbigin (1906)
"... or with incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolic). eg Orthoptera (cockroach, locust, cricket, etc. ..."

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