instar
English
Etymology 1
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) instar, which is of obscure origin.
Pronunciation
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|lang=
parameter) IPA(key): /ˈɪnstɑɹ/ - (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) Hyphenation: in‧star - (deprecated use of
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Noun
instar (plural instars)
- Any one of the several stages of postembryonic development which an arthropod undergoes, between molts, before it reaches sexual maturity.
- An arthropod at a specified one of these stages of development.
- 2005, Nematodes as biocontrol agents (edited by Parwinder S. Grewal, Ralf-Udo Ehlers, David I. Shapiro-Ilan), page 133:
- In A. orientalis, first and second instars were more susceptible than third instars to H. bacteriophora TF strain, […]
- 2005, Nematodes as biocontrol agents (edited by Parwinder S. Grewal, Ralf-Udo Ehlers, David I. Shapiro-Ilan), page 133:
- (deprecated template usage) (by extension) A stage in development.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
- 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.
- 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita:
Translations
stage in the development of arthropods
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arthropod at a specified one of these stages
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by extension: development stage
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Etymology 2
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Pronunciation
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parameter) IPA(key): /ɪnˈstɑː/ - Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "US" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) IPA(key): /ɪnˈstɑɹ/
Verb
instar (third-person singular simple present instars, present participle instarring, simple past and past participle instarred)
- (deprecated template usage) (archaic) To stud with stars.
- 1882, Frederick Randolph Abbe, The temple rebuilt: a poem, page 125:
- Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way;
- And, as angelic feet instar the sky,
- Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness.
- 1893, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 72, page 507:
- 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 […]
- 1896, Mary Noailles Murfree (pseudonym Charles Egbert Craddock) In the Tennessee mountains, edition 14, page 209:
- 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?
- 1882, Frederick Randolph Abbe, The temple rebuilt: a poem, page 125:
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īnstar (“of the same weight”).
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) IPA(key): /ɛ̃.staʁ/ - (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) Hyphenation: in‧star
Particle
instar
- Only used in Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "à l'instar de" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.
External links
- “instar”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Latin
Etymology
Of obscure origin.
Pronunciation
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|lang=
parameter) IPA(key): /ˈiːn.star/
Noun
īnstar n
- image, likeness, resemblance
- counterpart
- worth, value
- an equal form (of)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin īnstō (“urge, insist”).
Pronunciation
- (deprecated use of
|lang=
parameter) IPA(key): /ins.ˈtaɾ/
Verb
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- (deprecated template usage) (transitive) to urge, to be urgent
Conjugation
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