METAMORPHOSIS
\mˌɛtəmˈɔːfəsˌɪs], \mˌɛtəmˈɔːfəsˌɪs], \m_ˌɛ_t_ə_m_ˈɔː_f_ə_s_ˌɪ_s]\
Definitions of METAMORPHOSIS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Change of form or shape: transformation: the change living beings undergo in the course of their growth:-pl. METAMORPHOSES.
By Daniel Lyons
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Change of form and structure undergone by an animal from embryo to adult stage, as in Insects; interference with normal symmetry in flowers; internal chemical change.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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