heterometabolism
noun
het·ero·metabolism
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variants or less commonly heterometaboly
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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
Word History
Etymology
heter- + metabolism or metaboly
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