hemimetabolic

hemimetabolic has 2 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 13.

Definitions

• a.. Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.
• a.. (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult