Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In zoology, insects which do not undergo metamorphosis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.
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Where a word has more than one ending, the difference is given after a hyphen which represents the stem word: e.g. ametabola - ous; the latter in place of ametabolous, which indicates the possession of the characters peculiar to the ametabola.
Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology John. B. Smith
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