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Definition of Postembryonic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Postembryonic
Literary usage of Postembryonic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Entomology by John Henry Comstock (1920)
"The number of postembryonic molts. ... In numbering the stadia, the first stadium
is the period between hatching and the first postembryonic ecdysis. ..."
2. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"not too numerous) ; postembryonic Ontogeny ; Metamorphosis ; Alternation of
Generations ; Cycles of Generations ; Changes during Life. Biology', Cytology. ..."
3. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"The postembryonic development presents two important features, i. ...
This postembryonic development of the wings is the starting-point of the metamorphosis ..."
4. Rice Science: Innovations and Impact for Livelihood by T. W. Mew, International Rice Research Institute (2003)
"These results suggest that the existence of a GSH- dependent pathway is essential
for the initiation and maintenance of cell division during postembryonic ..."
5. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"... development within the egg or in the body of the mother—while the development
of other animals is largely postembryonic, or larval development, ..."
6. Evolution and Animal Life: An Elementary Discussion of Facts, Processes by David Starr Jordan, Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1907)
"... or immaturity from the time of birth or hatching until maturity is reached is
called the postembryonic life or postembryonic stages of development. ..."
7. Elementary Zoology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1901)
"As the work of this chapter, or some similar work in getting acquainted with the
postembryonic development of a many-celled animal, should be done early in ..."
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