Instar

Quick meaning: Instar is a noun meaning Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.

Meaning

Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.

More Meanings

1. An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.
2. (by extension) A stage in development.
3. (transitive, archaic) To stud or adorn with stars or other brilliants; to star.
4. (transitive) To make a star of; set as a star.

Example Sentences

In A. orientalis, first and second instars were more susceptible than third instars to H. bacteriophora TF strain, […]

Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way; And, as angelic feet instar the sky, Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness.

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?

California spirituality is a late instar of America’s utopian impulse, and corporate meritocracy derives from the Whig dream of the self-made man that entranced young Abraham Lincoln.

Word Forms

• instars
• instarring
• instarred

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stadia, age, time, juncture, phase, point.

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