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Definition of Hemimetabolous
1. Adjective. (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult.
Similar to: Metamorphic
Derivative terms: Hemimetabolism, Hemimetaboly, Hemimetabolism, Hemimetamorphosis
Definition of Hemimetabolous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Hemimetabolous
1. Pertaining to a member of the series of insect orders, the Hemimetabola, in which simple or incomplete metamorphosis is found. Origin: hemi-+ G. Metabole, change (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemimetabolous
Literary usage of Hemimetabolous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"These points of primitive structure are correlated with a primitive, usually
hemimetabolous development. The distinction between larva and imago is largely ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1904)
"... specialized type with an interpolated larval stage, while Blatta is a
representative of a comparatively generalized group of hemimetabolous insects. ..."
3. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"This instar is commonly described as the pupa. /. INCOMPLETE
METAMORPHOSIS (hemimetabolous* Development) In three of the orders of insects,
the Plecoptera, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... and hemimetabolous insects in which the external wing-rudiments have become
conspicuous (fig. 27). The mature dragon-fly nymph, for example, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... in their " hemimetabolous " life- histpry; the young insects are markedly
unlike their parents, inhabiting fresh water and breathing dissolved air, ..."
6. Scientific Papers and Addresses by George Rolleston, Edward Burnett Tylor (1884)
"Indeed, the very exception here proves the rule, and proves it to be a good one;
for such hemimetabolous insects as, like May- and dragon-flies, come, ..."
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