Hypermetamorphosis :: Hypermetamorphosis (n.) A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth..

Metamer :: Metamer (n.) Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene..

Metamere :: Metamere (n.) One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva..

Metameric :: Metameric (a.) Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric..

Metameric :: Metameric (a.) Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation..

Metamerically :: Metamerically (adv.) In a metameric manner.

Metamerism :: Metamerism (n.) The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.

Metamerism :: Metamerism (n.) The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds..

Metamorphic :: Metamorphic (a.) Subject to change; changeable; variable.

Metamorphic :: Metamorphic (a.) Causing a change of structure.

Metamorphic :: Metamorphic (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks..

Metamorphism :: Metamorphism (n.) The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble..

Metamorphist :: Metamorphist (n.) One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended.

Metamorphize :: Metamorphize (v. t.) To metamorphose.

Metamorphose :: Metamorphose (v. t.) To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.

Metamorphose :: Metamorphose (n.) Same as Metamorphosis.

Metamorphosed :: Metamorphosed (imp. & p. p.) of Metamorphos.

Metamorphoser :: Metamorphoser (n.) One who metamorphoses.

Metamorphoses :: Metamorphoses (pl. ) of Metamorphosi.

Metamorphosic :: Metamorphosic (a.) Changing the form; transforming.

Metamorphosing :: Metamorphosing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Metamorphos.

Metamorphosis :: Metamorphosis (n.) Change of form, or structure; transformation..

Metamorphosis :: Metamorphosis (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

Metamorphosis :: Metamorphosis (n.) The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.

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