metamorphosis

IPA: mɛtʌmˈɔrfʌsʌs

A transformation, such as one performed by magic.
A noticeable change in character, appearance, function or condition.
(biology) A change in the form and often habits of an animal after the embryonic stage during normal development. (e.g. the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog.)
(pathology) A change in the structure of a specific body tissue. Usually degenerative.

Examples of "metamorphosis" in Sentences

The verb transformed comes from the Greek word metamorphosis.
For some longtime residents, the metamorphosis is bitter sweet.
The environment boxes are taken into our lab where the M&M process, that's what we call metamorphosis around here, is completed.
The term metamorphosis includes both of these processes; and in the normal condition of the system presupposes a perfect equilibrium between them.
The word larva referring to the newly hatched form of insects before they undergo metamorphosis comes from the Latin word lārva, meaning “evil spirit, demon, devil.”
Meanwhile Rockwell (Darren Kendrick) suspects that a metamorphosis is taking place, possibly bringing about an evolutionary step for mankind -- one that could survive the current ecological decline.
Mutual funds sometimes undergo a name metamorphosis, emerging from their original gray cocoons as beautiful butterflies that will fly your investment returns higher than ever but does this flight really happen?
This strange metamorphosis is in some way connected to reports by astronomers that distant galaxies are ‘doubling’ – a phenomenon that is dubbed the Hubble Effect and attributed to the mutual annihilation of matter and anti-matter.
The term metamorphosis, then, really implies an alteration in the organizing force, taking effect at a very early period of the life of the flower, at or before the period when the primitive aggregation of cells, of which it is at that time composed, becomes separated or