heterometabolous   (TTS Sound)

The heterometabolous has 1 Senses.

• heterometabolic, heterometabolous
• (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage
• （昆虫について）幼虫が基本的に成虫のようで、さなぎの段階がない、発達過程にある不完全な変形