hemimetabolic

English

Etymology

hemi- +‎ metabolic

Adjective

hemimetabolic (not comparable)

1. (zoology) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.

   Grasshoppers and cockroaches are hemimetabolic.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hemimetabolic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)