Meaning Of The Word Juvenile hormone

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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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