instar
/in-stahr/US // ˈɪn stɑr //UK // (ˈɪnstɑː) //
本体,实体,实例,本质
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an insect in any one of its periods of postembryonic growth between molts.
Examples
Greek taken singly is, to use an indispensable Latin word, instar, the knowledge of all other languages.
Que Germania sic dicta erat, quia instar ramorum germinancium ab arbore, sic nomen regnaque germania nuncupantur.
Is vulgo putatur in tenebris Carbonis instar lucere; fortassis quia Pyropus seu Anthrax appellatus a veteribus fuit.
Testa subulata instar turris, anfractuum undecim, reticulata striis elevatis decussantibus punctis contiguationem eminentibus.
Sixty-nine per cent of the warbles were in the third instar stage, and the rest were in the second instar stage.
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