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/ˈɪnstɑː/ · noun
Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity..
In A. orientalis, first and second instars were more susceptible than third instars to H. bacteriophora TF strain, […]
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.
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.
Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way; And, as angelic feet instar the sky, Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness.
Espey could distinguish through the clear darkness the fringed branches of a pine-tree clinging to the heights above and waving against the instarred sky, and below a vague moving whiteness […]
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?
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Instar means Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity..
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In A. orientalis, first and second instars were more susceptible than third instars to H. bacteriophora TF strain, […]
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