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- English Word Metamorphoser Definition One who metamorphoses.
- English Word Metamorphoses Definition of Metamorphosis
- English Word Metamorphosic Definition Changing the form; transforming.
- English Word Metamorphosing Definition of Metamorphose
- English Word Metamorphosis Definition Change of form, or structure; transformation.
- English Word Metamorphosis Definition 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.
- English Word Metamorphosis Definition The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
- English Word Metanauplius Definition A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.
- English Word Metanephritic Definition Of or pertaining to the metanephros.
- English Word Metanephros Definition The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.
- English Word Metanotum Definition The dorsal portion of the metaphorax of insects.
- English Word Metantimonate Definition A salt of metantimonic acid.
- English Word Metantimonic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3).
- English Word Metantimonic Definition Formerly, designating an acid, which is now properly called pyroantimonic acid, and analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.
- English Word Metapectic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a supposed acid obtained from pectin.
- English Word Metapectin Definition A substance obtained from, and resembling, pectin, and occurring in overripe fruits.
- English Word Metapeptone Definition An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.
- English Word Metaphor Definition The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
- English Word Metaphoric Definition Alt. of Metaphorical
- English Word Metaphorical Definition Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense.
- English Word Metaphorist Definition One who makes metaphors.
- English Word Metaphosphate Definition A salt of metaphosphoric acid.
- English Word Metaphosphoric Definition Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.
- English Word Metaphrase Definition A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase.
- English Word Metaphrase Definition An answering phrase; repartee.
- English Word Metaphrased Definition Translated literally.
- English Word Metaphrasis Definition Metaphrase.
- English Word Metaphrast Definition A literal translator.
- English Word Metaphrastic Definition Alt. of Metaphrastical
- English Word Metaphrastical Definition Close, or literal.