About The Word Metamorphosis
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Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Metamorphosis?
[n] a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft
[n] a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances; "the metamorphosis of the old house into something new and exciting" [n] the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals Synonyms | Synonyms for Metamorphosis: metabolism | transfiguration Related Terms | Find terms related to Metamorphosis: avatar | catabolism | catalysis | consubstantiation | displacement | heterotopia | metabolism | metagenesis | metamorphism | metastasis | metathesis | metempsychosis | mutant | mutated form | mutation | permutation | reincarnation | sport | transanimation | transfiguration | transfigurement | transformation | transformism | translation | translocation | transmigration | transmogrification | transmutation | transposition | transubstantiation See Also | alteration | biological process | organic process | revision | transformation | translation Metamorphosis In Webster's Dictionary \Met`a*mor"pho*sis\, n.; pl. {Metamorphoses}. [L.,
fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to be transformed; ? beyond, over + ? form.]
1. Change of form, or structure; transformation.
2. (Biol.) A change in the form or function of a living
organism, by a natural process of growth or development;
as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a
tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom.
Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an
embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external
form, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in
insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction
is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into final
and sexually developed forms, from the union of which
organisms are produced which pass through the same cycle
of changes. See {Transformation}.
3. (Physiol.) The change of material of one kind into another
through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
{Vegetable metamorphosis} (Bot.), the doctrine that flowers
are homologous with leaf buds, and that the floral organs
are transformed leaves.
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