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词汇 metamorphosis
释义 metamorphosis
noun
uk /ˌmet.əˈmɔː.fə.sɪs/ us /ˌmet̬.əˈmɔːr.fə.sɪs/pluralmetamorphoses
[ C ]
a complete change: 彻底的变化
Under the new editor, the magazine has undergone a metamorphosis.在新主编的领导下,这份杂志彻底改头换面了。
[ U ] biology specialized
the process by which the young form of insects and some animals, such as frogs, develops into the adult form变态,蜕变
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metamorphosis | American Dictionary


metamorphosis
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌmet̬·əˈmɔr·fə·sɪs/pluralmetamorphosesus/ˌmet̬·əˈmɔr·fəˌsiz/
a complete change of character, appearance, or condition:
[ C ]She underwent a metamorphosis from a steady player into a ruthless aggressor on the court.
biology
Metamorphosis is the process by which the young form of insects, frogs, etc., develops into the adult form.

metamorphosed


adjective earth scienceus/ˌmet̬·əˈmɔr·foʊzd, -foʊst/

Examples of metamorphosis


metamorphosis
We found evidence for lower heritability in both growth rate and size at metamorphosis in the restricted food level.
By contrast, higher insects, which undergo complete metamorphosis, comprise the holometabola.
The earliest one is probably linked to the metamorphosis separating anaprotaspid and metaprotaspid stages, whereas the second phase occurs in late ontogenetic stages.
Similarly, prepupae were collected at least 72 h before metamorphosis would normally begin.
The scheme will test the idea of a gradual metamorphosis of the landscape carpets into building carpets.
Mean percentage metamorphosis increased incrementally to 99% between 6 and 12 day old biofilm treatments.
Physiological disturbances, such as incomplete moulting and metamorphosis, were variable in the two periods studied.
Developmentalists must, of course, account for the metamorphosis and disappearance of any child-specific apparatus that we posit.
Most likely we will wind up abandoning the task of keeping track of price altogether and complete the metamorphosis to nonrigorous mathematics.
Eggs and tadpoles were reared to metamorphosis in buckets of stream water to confirm species identification.
She is identifying with a death-bound mermaid caught at the point of metamorphosis who offers a brief opportunity to recover the lyric potential of poetry.
Hydroides elegans is an appropriate model organism for studying the induction of settlement and metamorphosis by bacterial biofilms.
Mortality due to egg inviability, rainfall, predation, parasitism, incomplete moulting and metamorphosis occurred contemporaneously in the field.
Metamorphosis completes within 4-26 days, resulting in a satiny-white, 2-mm-long moth that lives about 15 days.
In the larval stage, mortality by rainfall, parasitism, diseases and malformation during moulting, and metamorphosis was estimated from the samples drawn from the field population.
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