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Similar, but not superposable, i. e., related to each other as a right-handed to a left-handed glove; -- said of certain hemihedral crystals.

Affected, with gynandromorphism.

Heteromorphic.

Manifesting homoeomorphism.

Characterized by homomorphism.

A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth.

Salver-shaped; having a slender tube, expanding suddenly above into a bowl-shaped or spreading border, as in the blossom of the phlox and the lilac.

Like, or allied to, the porcupines; -- said of a group (Hystricomorpha) of rodents.

Fish-shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria.

Having a form of its own.

Having the quality of isodimorphism.

Having the quality of isomorphism.

Having the quality of isotrimorphism; isotrimorphic.

To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.

One who metamorphoses. [R.] Gascoigne.

Changing the form; transforming. [R.] Pownall.

function of a living organism, by a natural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis of the yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud into a blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which an embryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as the chrysalis s…

Having but a single form; retaining the same form throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; -- opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.

Having the form of a serpent.

Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.