Instar Definition

ĭn-stär
instar, instars
verb
To stud or adorn as with stars.
Webster's New World
To place as a star.
Webster's New World
noun
Any of the various stages of an insect or other arthropod between molts.
Webster's New World
(by extension) A stage in development.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Instar

Noun

Singular:
instar
Plural:
instars

Origin of Instar

  • New Latin īnstar from Latin image, form

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin instar (“form, likeness”).

    From Wiktionary

  • in- +‎ star

    From Wiktionary

Instar Sentence Examples

  • Young resembling parents, but penultimate instar passive and enclosed in a filmy pellicle.

  • The new instar - or temporary form - is often very different from the old one, and this is the essential fact of metamorphosis.

  • But examples are not wanting of a more or less complete resting habit during the latest nymphal instar.

  • Young animals always unlike parents, the wing-rudiments developing beneath the larval cuticle and only appearing in a penultimate pupal instar, which takes no food and is usually passive.

  • Pupa incompletely obtect or free, and enclosed in the hardened cuticle of the last larval instar (puparium).

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Words Starting With

IININS

Words Ending With

RARTAR

Unscrambles

instar

Words Starting With I and Ending With R

Starts With I & Ends With RStarts With IN & Ends With RStarts With I & Ends With AR

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With I6 Letter Words Ending With R