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

Transformation :: Transformation (n.) Change of one from of material into another, as in assimilation; metabolism; metamorphosis..

Petalody :: Petalody (n.) The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens, into petals..

Ametabola :: Ametabola (n. pl.) A group of insects which do not undergo any metamorphosis.

Hemimetabola :: Hemimetabola (n. pl.) Those insects which have an incomplete metamorphosis.

Gnat :: Gnat (n.) A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito..

Larva :: Larva (n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape..

Holometabolic :: Holometabolic (a.) Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees..

Metabolian :: Metabolian (n.) An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.

Palingenesy :: Palingenesy (n.) That form of evolution in which the truly ancestral characters conserved by heredity are reproduced in development; original simple descent; -- distinguished from kenogenesis. Sometimes, in zoology, the abrupt metamorphosis of insects, crustaceans, etc..

Transformation :: Transformation (n.) Any change in an organism which alters its general character and mode of life, as in the development of the germ into the embryo, the egg into the animal, the larva into the insect (metamorphosis), etc.; also, the change which the histological units of a tissue are prone to undergo. See Metamorphosis..

Holometabola :: Holometabola (n. pl.) Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.

Phyllody :: Phyllody (n.) A retrograde metamorphosis of the floral organs to the condition of leaves.

Necrobiotic :: Necrobiotic (a.) Of or pertaining to necrobiosis; as, a necrobiotic metamorphosis..

Pistillody :: Pistillody (n.) The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.

Metabolic :: Metabolic (a.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change..

Monogenesis :: Monogenesis (n.) The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to metagenesis..

Phoronis :: Phoronis (n.) A remarkable genus of marine worms having tentacles around the mouth. It is usually classed with the gephyreans. Its larva (Actinotrocha) undergoes a peculiar metamorphosis.

Metabolia :: Metabolia (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis..

Phyllome :: Phyllome (n.) A foliar part of a plant; any organ homologous with a leaf, or produced by metamorphosis of a leaf..

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