the emergence of an insect larva from the egg or an adult from the pupal case
Word origin
C19: from French éclosion, from éclore to hatch, ultimately from Latin exclūdere to shut out, exclude
eclosion in American English
(iˈkloʊʒən)
noun
the emergence of an insect from its egg or from the pupal case
Word origin
Fr éclosion < éclore, to hatch, be hatched < OFr esclore < VL *exclaudere, to hatch out, altered (as if < L ex- + claudere, to close2) < L excludere to hatch, drive out, exclude