| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | metamórfico |
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| Nouns | metamorphosis | the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals |
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