hemimetabola

English Thesaurus

1. subclass of insects characterized by gradual and usually incomplete metamorphosis (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	class,
definition	:	(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders (noun.group)

member meronym	:	class hexapoda, class insecta, hexapoda, insecta,
definition	:	insects; about five-sixths of all known animal species (noun.animal)