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单词 metamorphology
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metamorphologyn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: meta- prefix, morphology n.
Etymology: < meta- prefix + morphology n., after German Metamorphologie (Haeckel Gen. Morphol. der Organismen (1866) II. 22). N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (metămǫɹfǫ·lŏdʒi) /mɛtəmɔːˈfɒlədʒɪ/.
Zoology. Obsolete. rare.
The study of post-embryonic developmental changes.
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teratology1842
promorphology1878
metamorphology1879
tectology1883
ecomorphology1960
1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man II. 460 Later [sc. post-embryonic] changes form the subject of the science of Metamorphoses, or Metamorphology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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