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Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.

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  1. a. Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.
  2. adj. (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult
  3. Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvæ differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.
  4. Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvæ differing fromthe adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers andcockroaches.
  5. s (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult