hemimetabolism

1. 1.

   incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects

   Synonymshemimetamorphosishemimetaboly

   Broadermetamorphosis

Other forms of hemimetabolism

plural

hemimetabolisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hemimetabolism

What does hemimetabolism mean?

hemimetabolism means "incomplete or partial metamorphosis in insects".

How many syllables are in hemimetabolism?

hemimetabolism has 6 syllables: he-mi-me-ta-bo-lism. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for hemimetabolism?

Close synonyms include hemimetamorphosis, hemimetaboly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hemimetabolism a common word?

hemimetabolism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.