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metamorphic

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met=a=mor=phic

CIDE DICTIONARY

metamorphica. [See Metamorphosis.].
  •  Subject to change; changeable; variable.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Causing a change of structure.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

metamorphic, adj.
1 of or marked by metamorphosis.
2 Geol. (of rock) that has undergone transformation by natural agencies such as heat and pressure.

Derivative
metamorphism n.
Etymology
META- + Gk morphe form

THESAURUS

metamorphic

able to adapt, adaptable, adjustable, allotropic, alterable, alterative, anabolic, catabolic, catalytic, changeable, checkered, diversiform, ever-changing, flexible, fluid, heteromorphic, heteromorphous, impermanent, kaleidoscopic, malleable, manifold, many-sided, metabolic, metamorphotic, metastatic, mobile, modifiable, movable, multifarious, multifold, multiform, multiphase, multiple, multiplex, mutable, nonuniform, permutable, plastic, polymorphic, polymorphous, protean, proteiform, resilient, rubbery, supple, transient, transitory, variable

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