enesis: the formation and development of tissue.

Histolysis: the degeneration and dissolution of organic tissue.

Hoary: covered with a fine, white, silvery pubescence: pruinose q.v.

Holometabolous: having a complete transformation; with egg, larval,
pupal and adult stages distinctly separated.

Holopneustic: having many pairs of open stigmata.

Holoptic: Diptera in which the eyes of male are contiguous between
vertex and antennae: see dichoptic.

Holosericeus: with short, dense, silky hair, giving a satiny lustre.

Holotype: the unique type: = type; q.v.

Homelytra: elytra of similar or equal substance.

Homo: prefix = the same; similar.

Homochronic heredity: inheritance at corresponding periods of life.

Homochronous: changes in an organism which appear in the offspring
at the same age at which they did in the parent.

Homodynamous: serially homologous: homology of the metameres.

Homoeochromatism: applied when over a given region many
butterflies tend to vary similarly as regards color.

Homoeochrome: of the same color: see heterochrome.

Homoeomerous: all feet with an equal number of tarsal joints: =
isomerous.

Homoeonomous: of the same substance or texture.

Homoetype: = homotype; q.v.

Homogeneous: of the same kind or nature: similar in texture or parts.

Homogenous: similar in structure due to a community of descent.

Homologous: implies that organs are identical in general structure
and origin, though they may have developed in different ways for
special purposes: see analogous.

Homomorpha: insects in which the larvae resemble the adults.

Homonymous: pertaining to homology of parts arranged on a
transverse axis similarly developed and of equal function.

Homonym: a name similar to or like another already used for a
species in the same genus, or for a genus in the same kingdom: such
names are paid to be preoccupied.

Homonymous: where the same name is applied to different
conceptions.

Homophonous: words differently written but indistinguishable in
sound, applied to different conceptions.

Homoplastic: implies that organs, similar in situation and purpose,
are not structurally the same, or have not the same origin.

Homoptera: an ordinal term applied to those Hemiptera in which the
primaries are of the same consistence throughout.

Homotenous: retaining the primitive form: applied to insects without
or with an incomplete metamorphosis.

Homotype: is a specimen named by an