Metamorphosis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for METAMORPHOSIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a process of developmental change in insects whereby a larva reaches adulthood only after a radical change in morphology, often involving a pupa stage
• (in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages
• a change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different one
• Change of form, or structure; transformation.
• 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.
• The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
• the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals
• a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances
• a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• change of physical form, structure, or substance especially by supernatural means; a striking alteration in appearance, character, or circumstances

Words related to METAMORPHOSIS

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How to use METAMORPHOSIS in a sentence

• I am not sure that wonder does not come first, so striking can the metamorphosis be.
• The girl between ten and sixteen is undergoing a metamorphosis just as sure as that caterpillar is undergoing a metamorphosis.
• He puts into his body another substance that becomes his own, by a kind of metamorphosis.
• Truly a metamorphosis of Ovidius on the earth and within me! The frost has gone, the fine weather vanished, and there is Egyptian darkness.
• First, the various colonial governments have been considered, and some features of their metamorphosis into our modern state governments have been described.
• But, sooner than the moral metamorphosis, a physical metamorphosis came about in Marguerite.
• Italy underwent a metamorphosis, prescribed by the Papacy and enforced by Spanish rule.
• The metamorphosis has been rapid, marvelous, astounding.
• He resigned himself to these improvements with much good-nature and so passed through his metamorphosis almost without knowing it.
• Lord Hartledon was not the only husband who has been disagreeably astonished by a similar metamorphosis.
• On the other hand, metamorphosis among animals is associated with eggs of small size, with aquatic habit, and with relatively low zoological rank.
• On the other hand, the digestive system of insects that undergo a metamorphosis, passes through a profound crisis of dissolution and rebuilding.
• This meant another metamorphosis for the work and new and considerable work for the musician.
• It is like the ruling presentiment implanted in those insects that are to undergo metamorphosis.
• METAMORPHOSIS OF THE PENGUINS The archangel, having gone down into the Island of the Penguins, found the holy man asleep in the hollow of a rock surrounded by his new disciples.
• At this strange metamorphosis the youth was greatly alarmed, he dropped his bow and fell to the ground senseless.
• Had the play been foul, this metamorphosis would never have occurred.
• The pamphlets of Camille Desmoulins had, by a natural metamorphosis, become journals after that date.
• The likeness of his person has undergone a similar metamorphosis.
• The latter, to be serviceable for the purpose, should be cut into the rude shapes of horses before the metamorphosis can take place.
• By his wisdom, his patience, and his example he had brought about, in the fullness of time, the miraculous metamorphosis of which he had dreamed.
• Like everything else in the town, it had suffered a metamorphosis.
• Poetic in high degree is this subtle metamorphosis, so that the symphony in the first movement seems to prove the art rather than the national spirit of the Neo-Russians.
• He attempts to apply the method to Arithmetic and Geography, and in a short time is forming plans for the complete metamorphosis of his school.
• She felt a metamorphosis as if she were cracking out of the icy teddy bear with the stiff arms that the factory of the human race mutantly created and were now whimsical winds.
• While I was awaiting here the completion of my metamorphosis, M.
• Not that his face had grown ugly by a sudden metamorphosis.
• While metaphor was thus unintelligible and confusing to the Greek, metamorphosis was perfectly familiar to him.
• Readers often find some difficulty in understanding plainly how or why this metamorphosis was brought about.
• No parallel, even in the most distant degree, could be found for any such metamorphosis in the whole of the British Empire.
• Ulysses alone, having the wisdom to withstand the temptation of the treacherous cup, escaped the metamorphosis.

Similar words containing METAMORPHOSI without suffix s

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