Dictionary Entry
metamorphosis
metamorphosis is a 13-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Change of form, or structure; transformation. Face value is 22 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
13 letters · Scrabble 22 · Words With Friends 24 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Change of form, or structure; transformation.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
- 4noun
a complete change of physical form or substance especially as by magic or witchcraft
- 5noun
a striking change in appearance or character or circumstances
"the metamorphosis of the old house into something new and exciting"
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- 6noun
the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals
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