instar en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /ˈɪnstɑː/ (UK)
- /ˈɪnstɑɹ/ (General-American)
Etymology
From Latin instar (“form, likeness”), which is of obscure origin.
Meanings
- Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.
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An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.
In A. orientalis, first and second instars were more susceptible than third instars to H. bacteriophora TF strain, […]
2005, Nematodes as biocontrol agents, edited by Parwinder S. Grewal, Ralf-Udo Ehlers, and David I. Shapiro-Ilan, (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 133:
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(broadly) A stage in development.
We avoided Tourist Homes, country cousins of Funeral ones, old-fashioned, genteel and showerless, with elaborate dressing tables in depressingly white-and-pink little bedrooms, and photographs of the landlady’s children in all their instars.
1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 148:California spirituality is a late instar of America’s utopian impulse, and corporate meritocracy derives from the Whig dream of the self-made man that entranced young Abraham Lincoln.
2014 January 8, Caleb Crain, “The Democratic Personality”, in The New Yorker:
Forms
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| instars | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (14)
cmn 齡 /龄 (stage in the development of arthropods) · cmn 蛻期 /蜕期 (stage in the development of arthropods) · de Entwicklungsstadium (stage in the development of arthropods) · cmn 蛻變期 /蜕变期 (stage in the development of arthropods) · el στάδιο (stage in the development of arthropods) · ja 齢 (by extension: development stage) · fi kehitysvaihe (stage in the development of arthropods) · de Larve (arthropod at a specified one of these stages) · es estadio (stage in the development of arthropods) · de Larvenstadium (stage in the development of arthropods) · fr stade (stage in the development of arthropods) · fi kehitysvaihe (by extension: development stage) · de Entwicklungsstadium (by extension: development stage) · ru во́зраст (stage in the development of arthropods)