English
Etymology
Latin instar#Latin|instar �form, likeness�.
Pronunciation
IPA: /'ɪnst�:/
Noun
instar
#Any stage in the development or lifecycle of arthropods, between molts.
#:*1955: 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. � Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
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