In scientific uses. Zoology. Change of form in animal life, as in the successive transformations of insects, etc.; metamorphosis.
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| 释义 | the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > process of metamorphosis (7) transformation1663 In scientific uses. Zoology. Change of form in animal life, as in the successive transformations of insects, etc.; metamorphosis. complete metamorphosis1826 one in which the pupa is formed like the imago; so complete pupa. metamorphism1866 Biology. = metamorphosis, n. 3. rare. palingenesis1882 Entomology. Complete metamorphosis. Obsolete. rare. Subcategories:— hypermetamorphosis (2) — stage between successive ecdyses (1) |
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