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Metamorphose
- verb - change completely the nature or appearance of; "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"; "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman"; "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection"
- change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle"
Metamorphous
- adjective - of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks); "metamorphic stage"; "marble is a metamorphic rock that takes a high polish"
- produced by metamorphosis; "most insects are metamorphic as witness the stages as a butterfly develops from a caterpillar"
Metanauplius
- - A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.
Metantimonic
- - Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3). (b) Formerly, designating an acid, which is now properly called pyroantimonic acid, and analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.
Metaphorical
- adjective - expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language"
- Symbolic of something else
Metaphysical
- adjective - highly abstract and overly theoretical; "metaphysical reasoning"
- pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics; "metaphysical philosophy"
- without material form or substance; "metaphysical forces"
Metapophysis
- - A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebrae; a mammillary process.
Metasilicate
- - A salt of metasilicic acid.
Metasomatism
- - An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization.
Metastannate
- - A salt of metastannic acid.