instar

To set or adorn with stars or with brilliants; star.

To make a star of; set as a star.

Any one of the periods of an insect’s life between two molts. The period immediately after hatching is said to be the first instar, and that after the first molt the second instar. If a caterpillar molts four times the pupa is the sixth instar and the adult the seventh. The term originated with Fischer in 1853, but has only recently been generally adopted.

a postembryonic stage of life of an arthropod, especially an insect, between two successive molts; also, the arthropod when in that stage of life.

To stud as with stars.

To stud with stars.

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.

A stage in development.

an insect or other arthropod between molts