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Answer for the clue "Spangle ", 6 letters:
instar

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an insect or other arthropod between molts

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Instar \In"star`\, 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.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
An instar (, from the Latin "form", "likeness") is a developmental stage of arthropods , such as insects , between each moult ( ecdysis ), until sexual maturity is reached. Arthropods must shed the exoskeleton in order to grow or assume a new form. Differences ...

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The predators that devour the emptied husks of these hosts engulf as well my nymphal instars, and these eat those second hosts as well quite hollow, before we fly out like thistledown across the wind and light upon our rooting places.

Ultimus tandem chalifarum cui sumtus, stipendia, reditus, et thesauri, culinae, caeteraque omnis aulica pompa priorum chalifarum ad instar comparata fuerint.