Metamorphosis
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"Softening quickly in the waters quiet depth, their wood was changed to flesh, the curving prows were metamorphosed into human heads." --Metamorphoses by Ovid, Brookes More translation "One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin."--The Metamorphosis (1915) by Franz Kafka |
![Apollo and Daphne by Antonio Pollaiuolo, one tale of transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses—he lusts after her and she escapes him by turning into a bay laurel.](/images/thumb/200px-Apollo_and_Daphne.jpg)
Apollo and Daphne by Antonio Pollaiuolo, one tale of transformation in Ovid's Metamorphoses—he lusts after her and she escapes him by turning into a bay laurel.
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Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's form or structure. Some insects as well as other species undergo metamorphosis, which is usually (but not always) accompanied by a change of habitat or behaviour.
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Metamorphosis as a trope
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See also
- Shapeshifting
- Developmental biology
- Direct development
- Gosner stage
- Hypermetamorphosis
- Morphogenesis
- Metamorphosis of Plants by Goethe
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