Definition:
- (n.) Change of form, or structure; transformation.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
Compare metamorphosis with other words:
metamorphosic vs. metamorphosis
metamerism vs. metamorphosis
metamorphosis vs. polymorphism
metamorphosis vs. morphosis
epiphany vs. metamorphosis
hemimetabolic vs. metamorphosis
marmorosis vs. metamorphosis
marmorization vs. metamorphosis
marmarosis vs. metamorphosis
metagenesis vs. metamorphosis
metamorphosis vs. molting
metamorphosis vs. transmutation
metamorphosis vs. transform
metabolian vs. metamorphosis
hypermetamorphosis vs. metamorphosis
metamorphosis vs. pupal
metamorphosis vs. wurtzilite
anamorphosis vs. metamorphosis
metamorphosis vs. transmogrify
imago vs. metamorphosis
metamorphosis vs. transformer
metamorphosis vs. transfiguration
metamorphism vs. metamorphosis
metamorphose vs. metamorphosis
metamorphic vs. metamorphosis
metamorphosis vs. transmogrification
metabolic vs. metamorphosis
embryo vs. metamorphosis
metamorphosis vs. transformation