Associations to the word «Metamorphism»

Wiktionary

METAMORPHISM, noun. (geology) The process by which rocks are changed into other forms by the application of heat and/or pressure.
METAMORPHISM, noun. (zoology) The process by which insects development through life stages -- as, for example, those of embryo, larva, pupa and imago. The life cycle of the butterfly is one of complete metamorphosis, in which the embryo grows within the egg, hatches into the larval stage caterpillar, enters the pupal stage within its chrysalis, and finally emerges as an adult butterfly imago.

Dictionary definition

METAMORPHISM, noun. Change in the structure of rock by natural agencies such as pressure or heat or introduction of new chemical substances.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope