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What is a metamorphosis?

What is a metamorphosis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A transformation, such as that of magic or by sorcery
  2. A noticeable change in character, appearance, function or condition.
  3. (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.)
  4. (pathology) A change in the structure of a specific body tissue. Usually degenerative.
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He kicked the jack-of-all-trades route to the curb, got himself a band, and made a quick metamorphosis into a brash rocker.
Most studies of invertebrate larval metamorphosis have been performed with species that are sedentary or sessile as adults.
When Tom is identified as a thumbling, he has been speaking to a dragonfly larva also about to undergo a metamorphosis.
We will focus on 'complete' metamorphosis, the system promulgated by the order of the scaled wings.
On the one hand, lycanthropy referred to the reality of the werewolf, that is, the phenomenon of metamorphosis from human form to wolf.
If sufficient stimuli are present, the physiological process of metamorphosis is initiated within the larvae.

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