Clues for the word "METAMORPHOSIS"
We've had 8 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 9 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Guardian Quick crossword on January 17, 2017.
Definition of metamorphosis
- n. - Change of form, or structure; transformation.
- n. - A change 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, as the chrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediate stages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimately pass into final and sexually developed forms, from the union of which organisms are produced which pass through the same cycle of changes. See Transformation.
- n. - The change of material of one kind into another through the agency of the living organism; metabolism.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- Guardian Quick - January 17, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 08, 2014
- Guardian Quick - January 15, 2012
- New York Times - February 16, 2010
- Guardian Quick - February 18, 2009
- Universal - February 10, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - September 20, 2006
- Guardian Quick - March 07, 2005
- Guardian Cryptic - September 03, 2002