English
hypermetamorphosis
From hyper- + metamorphosis.
A compound of hyper- + metamorphosis
Proto-Indo-European *úp
Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’
Proto-Hellenic *hupér
Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’
English hyper-
Today it means
noun A kind of complete metamorphosis in which the different larval instars represent two or more different forms of larva.
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Etymograph / hypermetamorphosis