Hemimetabolic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Hemimetabolic \Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic\, a. (Zool.)
     Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larv[ae] differing
     from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the
     grasshoppers and cockroaches.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hemimetabolic
       adj : (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete
             metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the
             adult [syn: {hemimetabolous}, {hemimetamorphous}, {hemimetamorphic}]