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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

juvenile hormone

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01 n. A hormone secreted by insects which inhibits the molting of an insect from its juvenile into its adult form; also, substances having simila…
  1. 1.
    A hormone secreted by insects which inhibits the molting of an insect from its juvenile into its adult form; also, substances having similar activity, but produced by plants.(Zool.)