EGAVE

metamorphic

About 1.37 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Characterised by or exhibiting a change in form or character. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. adjective Pertaining to metamorphism; having been structurally altered as a result of, or resulting from, exposure to intense heat and/or pressure (at the contact zone between colliding plates, for example).
  3. adjective Pertaining to metamorphosis.
  4. adjective Of or relating to the Metamorphic Technique, a form of massage influenced by reflexology.
  5. noun A rock that has been changed from its original form by subjection to heat and/or pressure.

Similar words

metamorphous heterometabolic holometabolic hemimetabolous hemimetabolic holometabolous epimorphic changed hemimetamorphic hemimetamorphous

Often followed by

rocks rock and grade facies processes minerals belt conditions

Word family

metamorphically

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