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Thesaurus: heterometabolous
(of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage
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- adj. (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage
- s (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage