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Adjective: hemimetamorphous
  1. (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult
    "Dragonflies are hemimetamorphous insects";
    - hemimetabolous, hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphic

See also: metamorphic