hemimetabolic

from The Century Dictionary.

• Characterized by hemimetaboly; pertaining to hemimetaboly, or to the Hemimetabola; hemimetamorphic; homomorphic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective (Zoöl.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvæ differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• adjective zoology Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult