instar
IPA: ɪnstɑr
noun
- Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.
- An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.
- (by extension) A stage in development.
verb
- (transitive, archaic) To stud or adorn with stars or other brilliants; to star.
- (transitive) To make a star of; set as a star.
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Examples of "instar" in Sentences
- Each instar stage is divided by a molt.
- This gland develops in the second instar.
- Instars are the stages between each molt.
- They are gregarious until the third instar.
- The instars that follow digest the body itself.
- Each instar ends with shedding the exoskeleton.
- It appears at the end of the final larval instar.
- One was a third instar Rhodnius, the other was a fourth instar.
- Early instar larvae are purple and later instar larvae are green.
- The length of the whole larvae is at the first instar and at the last instar.
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