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from The Century Dictionary.
- In entomology, a division of Packard's Heterometabola including those insects which undergo a slight or gradual metamorphosis but which are active in all stages. It includes the Orthoptera, Dermaptera, Platyptera, Thysanoptera, and Hemiptera (the Coccidæ excepted).
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