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hemimetabolic

hemimetabolic adjective: hemimetabolous.

Adjective

hemimetabolic (not comparable)

  1. hemimetabolous
    • Grasshoppers and cockroaches are hemimetabolic.

Origin of hemimetabolic

From hemi- + metabolic.

Words formed from hemimetabolic

Questions about hemimetabolic

What does hemimetabolic mean?
Hemimetabolic means hemimetabolous.
What part of speech is hemimetabolic?
Hemimetabolic is an adjective.

Words near hemimetabolic in the dictionary

  1. hemimerids
  2. hemimesencephalon
  3. hemimesencephalons
  4. hemimetabolan
  5. hemimetabolans
  6. hemimetabolic
  7. hemimetabolism
  8. hemimetabolous
  9. hemimetaboly
  10. hemimetameric
  11. hemimetamorphosis

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