What is "hemimetabolic"

Hemimetabolic \Hem`i*met`a*bol"ic\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larv[ae] differing from the adults chiefly in laking wings, as in the grasshoppers and cockroaches.

a. (context zoology English) Having an incomplete metamorphosis, the larvae differing from the adults chiefly in lacking wings.

adj. (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult [syn: hemimetabolous, hemimetamorphous, hemimetamorphic]