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Holometabola

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Hol`o`me`tab´o`la
n. pl.1.(Zool.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.
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Noun1.Holometabola - insects that undergo complete metamorphosisholometabola - insects that undergo complete metamorphosis
metabola
insect - small air-breathing arthropod
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Printed in an oversize (9x12") format, and illustrated with copious color plates of fossils and present day specimens, the text details the evolution of insects, with chapters on polyneoptera, paraneopteran orders, holometabola, coleoptera and strepsiptera, hymenoptera, panorpida, and amphiesmenoptera.
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