The emergence of an adult insect from a pupal case or an insect larva from an egg.
[French éclosion, from éclore, to open, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *exclaudere, to shut out : Latin ex-, ex- + Latin claudere, to shut.]
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e·clo·sion (ĭ-klō'zhən)  |
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The emergence of an adult insect from a pupal case or an insect larva from an egg.
The emergence of an adult insect from a pupal case or an insect larva from an egg.
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