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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult;
[syn: hemimetabolous, hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphous, hemimetamorphic]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hemimetabolic \Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic\, a. (Zool.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larv[ae] differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hemimetabolic adj 1: (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult [syn: hemimetabolous, hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphous, hemimetamorphic]