incomplete metamorphosis
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of incomplete metamorphosis
First recorded in 1770–75
Example Sentences
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Grasshoppers, cicadas, cockroaches, and yes, dragonflies, are all examples of incomplete metamorphosis, also called non-holometabolous.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Regardless of whether a species undergoes complete or incomplete metamorphosis, the series of developmental stages of the embryo remains largely the same for most members of the animal kingdom.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Some animals, such as grasshoppers, undergo incomplete metamorphosis, in which the young resemble the adult.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Who remembers what the young of insects that undergo an incomplete metamorphosis are sometimes called?
From The Insect Folk by Margaret Warner Morley
Heremetabola: with slight or incomplete metamorphosis, but with a resting stage at the end of the nymph life; specifically the Cicadidae.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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