Meaning Of The Word Juvenile hormone
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Juvenile hormone Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Juvenile hormone?
juvenile hormone in American English
a hormone secreted by insects that regulates growth and metamorphosis and which must be absent for the emergence of an adult: used to inhibit insect growth, as for preventing insect reproduction noun: any of a class of insect and plant hormones acting to inhibit the molting of a juvenile insect into its adult form juvenile hormone in British English noun: a hormone, secreted by insects from a pair of glands behind the brain, that promotes the growth of larval characteristics and inhibits metamorphosis |
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