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Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc. [Written also metallorganic.]

Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.

ts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.

Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.

In a metameric manner.

The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.

since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.

The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble. Murchison.

One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended.

To metamorphose.

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.

ge in the form or 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,…

A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.

Of or pertaining to the metanephros.

The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.

The dorsal portion of the metaphorax of insects.

A salt of metantimonic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3).