instar

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.

In A. orientalis, first and second instars were more susceptible than third instars to H. bacteriophora TF strain, […]

A stage in development.

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.

California spirituality is a late instar of America’s utopian impulse, and corporate meritocracy derives from the Whig dream of the self-made man that entranced young Abraham Lincoln.

To stud or adorn with stars or other brilliants; to star.

Yet mark with shining steps the humbler way; And, as angelic feet instar the sky, Drop the bright sparks along the wilderness.

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 […]

To make a star of; set as a star.