instar
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
instar (plural instars)
- 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.
- 2005, Nematodes as biocontrol agents (edited by Parwinder S. Grewal, Ralf-Udo Ehlers, David I. Shapiro-Ilan), page 133:
- 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, David I. Shapiro-Ilan), page 133:
- (by extension) A stage in development.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
- 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:
- German: Larvenstadium, Entwicklungsstadium
- Russian: во́зраст
- Spanish: estadio
- German: Larve
- German: Entwicklungsstadium
instar (instars, present participle instarring; past and past participle instarred)
- (transitive, archaic) To stud or adorn with stars or other brilliants; to star.
- 1882, Frederick Randolph Abbe, The temple rebuilt: a poem, page 125:
- Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way;
- And, as angelic feet instar the sky,
- Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness.
- 1893, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 72, page 507:
- Espey could distinguish through the clear darkness the fringed branches of a pine-tree clinging to the heights above and waving against the instarred sky, and below a vague moving whiteness […]
- 1896, Mary Noailles Murfree (pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock) In the Tennessee mountains, edition 14, page 209:
- He was dreaming, surely; or were those deep, instarred eyes really fixed upon him with that wistful gaze which he had seen only twice before?
- 1882, Frederick Randolph Abbe, The temple rebuilt: a poem, page 125:
- (transitive) To make a star of; set as a star.
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