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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Metamorphic \Met`a*mor"phic\, a. [See {Metamorphosis}.]
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
metamorphic
adj 1: of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks);
"metamorphic stage"; "marble is a metamorphic rock
that takes a high polish" [syn: {metamorphous}]
2: characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or
substance [ant: {nonmetamorphic}]
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