English edit

Etymology edit

metabola +‎ -ian

Noun edit

metabolian (plural metabolians)

  1. (zoology, dated) An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for metabolian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Finnish edit

Noun edit

metabolian

  1. genitive singular of metabolia