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paurometabolism

adjective

designating or of a group of insect orders, as orthopterans or hemipterans, in which metamorphosis to the adult state from the juvenile state is gradual and without any sudden, radical change of body form

also paurometabolic

noun

Origin: < Gr pauros, small (< IE base *pōu-: see few) + metabolos, changeable < metabolē, change: see metabolism

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