Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
metamorphosis , 4. - noun In biology, the abnormal replacement of a part of the body of an organism by another part, as in a flower in which the pistil is replaced by a leaf-shoot.
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Examples
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Hence, in the present work, the term metamorphy is employed to distinguish cases where the ordinary course of development has been perverted or changed.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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This multiplication may happen without any metamorphy or substitution of petals for stamens, though, in the majority of cases, it is associated with such a change.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Where there is evidently a passage from leaf-bud to flower-bud, or _vice versâ_, the case would be one of metamorphy.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The peloric fox-glove shows the [368] highest degree of metamorphy in the terminal flowers of the stem itself, the weaker branches having but little tendency towards the formation of the anomaly.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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