nymphosis
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nymphosis (uncountable)
- (entomology) The passage from the larval state to the nymph state of an insect.
- 2012, P. Jolivet, Biology of Chrysomelidae, page 6:
- There are probably similarities between morphology and development with the Sagrinae, but the nymphosis here occurs within the soil.