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单词 metaplasis
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metaplasisn.

Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Metaplasis.
Etymology: < German Metaplasis ( Haeckel Gen. Morphol. der Organismen (1866) II. v. 78) < meta- meta- prefix (compare meta- prefix 7) + ancient Greek πλάσις moulding, conformation (see -plasia comb. form). Compare Byzantine Greek μετάπλασις metaplasm. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (metæ·plăsis) /mɛˈtæpləsɪs/.
Biology. Obsolete. rare.
Haeckel's name for: the middle or adult period of ontogenetic development, in which growth and development have been completed.
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1888 Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 23 405 This eminent author [sc. Haeckel] regarded the ontogeny of an individual to be divisible into three periods..second, the stages of fulfilled growth and development, Metaplasis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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