HETEROMETABOLISM


Meaning of HETEROMETABOLISM in English

“+ noun

also het·ero·metaboly “+

Etymology: heter- + metabolism or metaboly

of insects : development with incomplete or direct metamorphosis in which the young nymph is fundamentally like the adult and no pupal stage precedes maturity — distinguished from holometabolism ; compare hemimetabolism

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