Hem·i·met·a·bol·ic a. Zool. Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.
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hemimetabolic
adj : (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete
metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the
adult [syn: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphous, hemimetamorphic]