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Metamorphic   Listen
adjective
Metamorphic  adj.  
1.
Subject to change; changeable; variable.
2.
Causing a change of structure.
3.
(Geol.) Pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone 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.





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Words linked to "Metamorphic" :   hemimetabolic, hemimetamorphous, epimorphic, heterometabolous, hemimetabolous, metamorphosis, changed, holometabolic, metamorphic rock, heterometabolic


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