heterometabolic

Thân thiện

A grasshopper is a heterometabolic insect.

Definition

Adjective: 1. Describing a type of insect development: Pertaining to or undergoing a form of growth (metamorphosis) where the young insect, called a nymph, closely resembles the adult form but is smaller and lacks fully developed wings and reproductive organs. This process does not include a resting, non-feeding pupal stage.

Usage

The term heterometabolic is a specialized scientific adjective used almost exclusively in entomology (the study of insects) to classify and describe the life cycle of certain insect groups. - It is typically used attributively (before a noun) to modify words like insect, development, or metamorphosis. - It describes the process itself or an insect that undergoes such a process.

Examples

• Grasshoppers and true bugs are classic examples of heterometabolic insects.
• The heterometabolic development of a dragonfly involves an aquatic nymph stage.
• This order is characterized by its heterometabolic life cycle, lacking a pupal instar.

Advanced Usage / Scientific Context

• Heterometabolism (noun): The process or condition of undergoing incomplete metamorphosis. This is the noun form.
  • Example: "Hemimetabolism is another term for heterometabolism."
• Heterometabolous (adjective): A synonymous, alternative adjective form with identical meaning.
  • Example: "Cockroaches have a heterometabolous life history."

Variants and Related Words

• Hemimetabolic (adj.): A direct synonym. Both "heterometabolic" and "hemimetabolic" describe incomplete metamorphosis.
• Hemimetabolism (n.): The synonymous noun form.
• Holometabolic (adj.): The antonym; describing complete metamorphosis (egg, larva, pupa, adult), as seen in butterflies or beetles.
• Ametabolic (adj.): Describing insects with little or no metamorphosis, such as silverfish.

Synonyms

• Hemimetabolic
• Hemimetabolous
• Undergoing incomplete/paurometabolous metamorphosis

Antonyms

• Holometabolic
• Holometabolous

Học thuật

Adjective

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• heterometabolous