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Hemimetabolic

Webster's Dictionary

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Hemimetabolic'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/hemimetabolic.html. 1828.