subitaneous

adjective

1. Sudden; suddenly done or made.

   obsolete

2. Immediately developing (as contrasted with e.g. diapausing).

   ... subitaneous (immediately developing) and diapausing (dormant) eggs, brood retention, environmental sex determination and suppression of meiosis in subitaneous eggs. The production of subitaneous and diapausing eggs is[…]

Where it comes from

From Latin subitaneus. Doublet of sudden.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry subitaneous (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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