holometabola

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holometabola - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Holometabola \Hol`o*me*tab"o*la\, n. pl. [NL. See Holo-, and
     Metabola.] (Zool.)
     Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.
     [1913 Webster]

holometabola - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  holometabola
      n 1: insects that undergo complete metamorphosis [syn:
           holometabola, metabola]