Word Meanings - AMETABOLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.

Related words: (words related to AMETABOLA)

• UNDERGORE
  To gore underneath.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• UNDERGOWN
  A gown worn under another, or under some other article of dress. An undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk. Sir W. Scott.
• UNDERGO
  1. To go or move below or under. 2. To be subjected to; to bear up against; to pass through; to endure; to suffer; to sustain; as, to undergo toil and fatigue; to undergo pain, grief, or anxiety; to undergothe operation of amputation; food in the
• GROUP
  A variously limited assemblage of animals or planta, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera,
• GROUPER
  One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidæ, as the red grouper, or brown snapper , and the black grouper, or warsaw , both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico. The tripletail .
• GROUPING
  The disposal or relative arrangement of figures or objects, as in, drawing, painting, and sculpture, or in ornamental design.
• UNDERGOD
  A lower or inferio
• METAMORPHOSIS
  A change in the form or function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual
• SUBGROUP
  A subdivision of a group, as of animals. Darwin.
• WENLOCK GROUP
  The middle subdivision of the Upper Silurian in Great Britain; -- so named from the typical locality in Shropshire.
• AGGROUPMENT
  Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
• LUDLOW GROUP
  A subdivision of the British Upper Silurian lying below the Old Red Sandstone; -- so named from the Ludlow, in Western England. See the Chart of Geology.
• AGROUPMENT
  See AGGROUPMENT
• LARAMIE GROUP
  An extensive series of strata, principally developed in the Rocky Mountain region, as in the Laramie Mountains, and formerly supposed to be of the Tertiary age, but now generally regarded as Cretaceous, or of intermediate and transitional character.
• POTSDAM GROUP
  A subdivision of the Primordial or Cambrian period in American geology; -- so named from the sandstone of Potsdam, New York. See Chart of Geology.
• HYPERMETAMORPHOSIS
  A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth.
• QUEBEC GROUP
  The middle of the three groups into which the rocks of the Canadian period have been divided in the American Lower Silurian system. See the Chart of Geology.
• COLORADO GROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• AGGROUP
  To bring together in a group; to group. Dryden.
• DAKOTA GROUP
  A subdivision at the base of the cretaceous formation in Western North America; -- so named from the region where the strata were first studied.