endopterygoteadj.n.
/ˌɛndəʊpˈtɛrɪɡəʊt/ Entomology.
Belonging to the division Endopterygota of insects, which develop their wings internally until the pupa stage. Also as n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [adjective] > of member of Endopterygota or Metabola
metabolian1835
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endopterygotous1902
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1928 G. H. Carpenter Biol. Insects xii. 329 The orders of winged insects—whether exopterygote or endopterygote—are distinguished mainly, as regards the adults, by the characters of their jaws and their wings.
1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) iii. 255 There is no doubt that the Megaloptera..include some of the most primitive recent Endopterygotes.
1964 V. B. Wigglesworth Life of Insects 320 This [sc. Neuroptera] is the first of the ‘endopterygote’ orders or Holometabola.
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ˌendopteryˈgotic adj.
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endopterygotic1899
endopterygotous1902
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1899 Proc. Intern. Congress Zool. 1898 248 The great majority of existing insects are endopterygotic.
ˌendopteryˈgotism n.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 503/1 The change from exopterygotism to endopterygotism..by an intermediate period of anapterygotism.
ˌendopteryˈgotous adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [adjective] > of member of Endopterygota or Metabola
metabolian1835
endopterygotic1899
endopterygotous1902
endopterygote1928
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXIX. 502/2 Some of the Palæozoic insects, though we infer them to have been exopterygotous, were really endopterygotous.
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