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Adjective: heterometabolic
  1. (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage
    - heterometabolous

See also: heterometaboly, metamorphic

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heteroicous
Heterokontae
Heterokontophyta
heterologic
heterological
heterologous
heterology
Heteromeles
Heteromeles arbutifolia
heteromerous
heterometabolic
heterometabolism
heterometabolous
heterometaboly
heteromorphic
Heteromyidae
heteronomous
heteronomy
heteronym
heterophil antibody
heterophil test