Instar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To stud with or as if with stars.
  • n. A stage of an insect or other arthropod between molts.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To stud with stars.
  • n. Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.
  • n. An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.
  • n. A stage in development.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To stud as with stars.
  • n. a postembryonic stage of life of an arthropod, especially an insect, between two successive molts; also, the arthropod when in that stage of life.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To set or adorn with stars or with brilliants; star.
  • To make a star of; set as a star.
  • n. Any one of the periods of an insect's life between two molts. The period immediately after hatching is said to be the first instar, and that after the first molt the second instar. If a caterpillar molts four times the pupa is the sixth instar and the adult the seventh. The term originated with Fischer in 1853, but has only recently been generally adopted.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an insect or other arthropod between molts
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    arthropod   
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