adj
Of or pertaining to an allotroph.
adj
(zoology) Of or pertaining to insects that undergo metamorphosis
n
(biology) A form of limited metamorphosis in some arthropods.
n
(biology) The division of the body into antimeres.
n
(biology) The growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
n
(biology) A form of reproduction, in some annelids, in which fission is followed by bodily reorganization
n
(biology) Biological growth, (now usually restricted to) expansion or growth of an organism apart from that due to cellular division.
adj
Of or pertaining to catabiosis.
adj
Of or pertaining to a chimera (in all senses)
adj
Of or relating to copoiesis.
adj
(biology) Relating to coremia
adj
Alternative form of cytophile [Synonym of cytophilic]
adj
(biology) Governed by two auxins, and thus ...
n
(biology) growth of an organism that is governed by two auxins and, thus, has two phases of growth
n
(biology) A secondary unit of organisation consisting of an aggregate of monads.
adj
(biology) Pertaining to an endocycle
adj
Relating to epimorphosis.
adj
Relating to eubiotics or to eubiosis
adj
Of or pertaining to exomorphism.
adj
Relating to exosymbiosis
adj
Relating to gametogenesis
adj
(biology, of a life cycle) Having multicellular diploid and haploid stages
n
(biology) Incomplete metamorphosis; the mode of development of certain insects that includes three distinct stages: egg, nymph, and imago (adult).
adj
Exhibiting hemimetabolism.
n
(biology) Incomplete or partial metamorphosis
adj
(biology) Developing from more than a single type of tissue.
adj
Alternative form of heterotachous [(genetics) Relating to heterotachy]
adj
Relating to histotrophs or to histotrophy
n
(biology) Complete metamorphosis
n
(biology) The regeneration of a lost limb, tail or other part
n
(zoology) The use, by an organism, of the same colour as its background as a means of protection
adj
Exhibiting or relating to matrotrophy.
adj
Relating to, or exhibiting, metabiosis.
adj
Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
adj
Alternative form of metabolic [Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.]
n
(biology) The change in shape undergone by euglenids as they move or evolve
n
(zoology) The ability to change colour by the expansion and contraction of chromatophores
adj
(biology) Relating to, or exhibiting metagyny
adj
(biology, anatomy) exhibiting metamerism
n
(biology) An organism that has undergone metamorphosis
n
(zoology) The process by which insects develop through life stages, for example, those of embryo, larva, pupa and imago. The life cycle of the butterfly is one of complete metamorphosis, in which the embryo grows within the egg, hatches into the larval stage caterpillar, enters the pupal stage within its chrysalis, and finally emerges as an adult butterfly imago.
adj
Producing (or produced by) metamorphism
v
(of a moth or insect, intransitive) To undergo metamorphosis.
n
(pathology) A change in the structure of a specific body tissue. Usually degenerative.
n
Someone who causes or undergoes a metamorphosis.
adj
Of or relating to metamorphosis.
n
(biology, archaic) Fulfilled growth and development seen in the stage between anaplasis and cataplasis.
adj
Relating to metramorphosis.
n
(matrixial theory) A creative principle supposed to be responsible for changes in borderlines.
n
(biology) The change in shape undergone by euglenids as they evolve
n
(botany) Synonym of nyctinasty
adj
Relating to orogenesis.
adj
Relating to a paraselene.
adj
Of or relating to peramorphosis, the development of additional traits past adulthood.
adj
Of or relating to perimorphism or a perimorph.
adj
Synonym of mixotrophic
adj
Of or relating to photomorphogenesis.
n
Synonym of photomorphogenesis
adj
Alternative form of photosynthetic [Of, relating to, or employing photosynthesis.]
n
The initial stage of amphibian metamorphosis
n
(biology) An inferred time in the development of a cell
n
(biology) The adaptation of smolts when migrating from rivers to seawater
adj
Relating to speleogenesis
adj
(geology) Describing any process that accompanies an orogenic one
n
(biology) The evolutionary process that creates tagmata by fusing and modifying segments.
adj
Relating to thermomorphogenesis
n
(biology) The phase in the active growth of a culture in which primary metabolites are formed.
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