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Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology: Complete Work - Best Text

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<strong>Online</strong> <strong>Dictionary</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Invertebrate</strong> <strong>Zoology</strong> 439environment, the biocoen and abiocoen; the ecosystem.holocrine a. [Gr. holos, whole; krinein, to separate] The disintegration<strong>of</strong> a gland in order to release secretions. seemerocrine.holocyclic a. [Gr. holos, whole; kyklos, circle] Pertaining toalternation <strong>of</strong> generations. see anholocyclic.holoenzyme n. [Gr. holos, whole; en, in; zyme, yeast] A completefunctional enzyme consisting <strong>of</strong> an apoenzyme and acoenzyme taken together. see apoenzyme.hologamy n. [Gr. holos, whole; gamos, marriage] Conditionwhere gametes and somatic cells are similar; macrogamy.holognathous a. [Gr. holos, whole; gnathos, jaw] (MOLL:Gastropoda) Possessing a jaw <strong>of</strong> one piece construction, ascertain terrestrial forms.hologynic a. [Gr. holos, whole; gyne, woman] A term describingsex-limited characters which are manifest only inthe female sex. see holandric.hologynous a. [Gr. holos, whole; gyne, woman] (ANN) A classicalterm pertaining to ovaries restricted to segments xiiand xiii or a homeotic equivalent.hologyny n. [Gr. holos, whole; gyne, woman] The state orcondition <strong>of</strong> being hologynous.holoic see meganephridiaHolometabola n. [Gr. holos, whole; metabole, change] Dominantsuperorder <strong>of</strong> insects, distributed worldwide, that includesthe vast majority <strong>of</strong> insect families, genera and specieswith complete metamorphosis and wing pads formedby invagination; in some classifications Endopterygota.holometabolous metamorphosis (ARTHRO: Insecta) Metamorphosiswith a larva, pupa and adult; complete metamorphosis.see paurometabolous.holomyarian a. [Gr. holos, whole; mys, muscle] (NEMATA) Describingthe longitudinal muscle cells indistinguishable asindividual cells so as to appear like a single band as viewedin transverse section. This term was discarded in nematologywhen Butschli in 1873 showed that, by definition, noexamples exist. see meromyarian, polymyarian.

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