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[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]