metaplasm

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  1. noun Alteration of a word by the addition, omission, or transposition of sounds or syllables or the letters that represent them.
  2. noun Nonliving material in the protoplasm of a cell, such as pigment granules or nutritive substances.

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  1. Middle English metaplasmus, from Latin, from Greek metaplasmos, remodeling, from metaplassein, to remold : meta-, meta- + plassein, to mold; see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots.
  2. meta- + -plasm.

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  1. from Latin metaplasmus, from Greek μεταπλασμός, a transformation, the assumption of a present or nominative for the derived tenses of verbs or cases of nouns, from μεταπλάσσ, σ1ειν, transform, change, from μετά, over, + πλάσσ, σ1ειν, form, mold.
  2. from Greek μετά, after, + πλάσμα, something molded: see plasm.
 

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/ˈmɛtəplæzm/
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