hemipneustic (English, adj)
expansion: hemipneustic (not comparable)
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topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: in tracheal systems, having at least one functional pair of spiracles fewer than than the ten open pairs in holopneustic tracheal systems; hemipneustic systems occur for example, in the larvae of some Lepidoptera.
tags: not-comparable
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