metamorphosis

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At the heart of this metamorphosis is the historic Akaretler Row Houses, a two-block cluster of landmark town houses built by a 19th-century sultan to house his workers.

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  1. noun A transformation, as by magic or sorcery.
  2. noun A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function.
  3. noun Biology A change in the form and often habits of an animal during normal development after the embryonic stage. Metamorphosis includes, in insects, the transformation of a maggot into an adult fly and a caterpillar into a butterfly and, in amphibians, the changing of a tadpole into a frog.
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  • Haramis had the uneasy feeling that one of the groves of dead trees that the Skriteks used for their metamorphosis was along the children's proposed route. —  Trillium 05 - Lady of the Trillium by Marion Zimmer Bradley (v1.0) (html).html
  • Desperation and economics may force some hands here, but the media metamorphosis is the replaying of an old script. —  Media Bullseye
  • Whilst vocalist Jon Hume hasn't drastically undergone any type of metamorphosis, the instrumentation certainly has. —  FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
  • The process of achieving the metamorphosis is rugged and tortuous yet the result should appear effortless and obvious. —  Hankblog
  • I had a very difficult time understanding what I was reading because I was not familiar with the language of biology; although some basic terms I did know from my very limited study of biology, such as osmosis, metamorphosis, and fission. —  Allan R. Bevere
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  1. Latin metamorphōsis, from Greek, from metamorphoun, to transform : meta-, meta- + morphē, form.

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  1. Formerly also metamorphose, q. v.; from Latin metamorphosis, from Greek μεταμόρφωσις, a transformation, from μεταμορφοῡσθαι, be transformed, from μετά, over, + μορφή, form, shape.
 

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