hetero-metabolism

het·er·o·me·tab·o·lous

[het-uh-roh-mi-tab-uh-luhs]
adjective Entomology.
undergoing development in which the young are born adultlike in form, often maturing without a pupal stage.
Also, het·er·o·met·a·bol·ic [het-uh-roh-met-uh-bol-ik] .


Origin:
hetero- + metabol(ic) + -ous

het·er·o·me·tab·o·lism, het·er·o·me·tab·o·ly, noun
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heterometabolous

adjective
(of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage 
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Hetero-metabolism is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
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