| ADJECTIVE | pert | metamorphic, metamorphous | of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks) |
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| all | metamorphic | characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance |
| Sounds | meh.tahmao'rfihk | |
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| Rhymes | academic ... Zurich: 733 rhymes with ihk... | |
| Meaning | Of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks). | |
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| Examples |
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| Synonym | metamorphous | |
| Spanish | metamórfico | |
| Nouns | metamorphosis | the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals |
| Meaning | Characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance. | |
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| Narrower | changed | changed in constitution or structure or composition by metamorphism |
| epimorphic | Characterized by incomplete metamorphosis | |
| hemimetabolous, hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphous, hemimetamorphic | (of an insect with aquatic young) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the young does not resemble the adult | |
| heterometabolous, heterometabolic | (of an insect) undergoing incomplete metamorphosis in which the nymph is essentially like the adult and there is no pupal stage / stage | |
| holometabolic, holometabolous | (of an insect) undergoing complete metamorphosis | |
| metamorphous | produced by metamorphosis | |
| Opposite | nonmetamorphic | not metamorphic |
| Spanish | metamórfico | |
| Nouns | metamorphosis | the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals |
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