neomorphismn.
/ˌnɪəˈmɔːfɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌnioʊˈmɔrˌfɪz(ə)m/ 1.
a. Biology. The evolutionary process that gives rise to a new anatomical structure or feature; the development of a neomorph (neomorph n. 1); an instance of this.
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the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [noun] > changing in shape or form
metamorphosis1447
translatingc1454
metamorphosy1532
transfiguration1548
metamorphose1608
trans-shape1611
tranation1654
transfigurement1865
transpeciation1867
shape-shifting1884
neomorphism1888
trans-shaping1909
1888 H. Gadow in Nature 13 Dec. 151/2 Still greater is the difficulty when the neomorphism..takes place in the next following metamere.
1903 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 19 344 Parietal separations in apes and monkeys seem to be examples of disturbed normal development, or dismorphism, with, perhaps, a tendency towards neomorphism.
1968 Phytomorphology 18 510/1 The phenomenon of neomorphism in plant cultures was reported for the first time in Oenanthe aquatica.
1990 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 92 373 Despite lack of relevant fossils, the more plausible conclusion is that the wing pattern is primarily atavistic and not a neomorphism.
b. Genetics. The property of being a neomorph (neomorph n. 2).
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1953 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 39 1042 With suitable assumptions regarding amorphism or neomorphism of the mutants, any of these three models can explain the aspects of the present data concerned with homozygotes.
1988 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 85 4430/1 Since simultaneous expression of the wild-type allele counteracted the effects of the mutant allele, neo- or hypermorphism is unlikely.
2. Geology. The diagenetic transformation of a mineral which results in its replacement by new crystals of the same mineral or of a polymorph.Chiefly with reference to the changes which occur in carbonate sediments, involving calcite and related minerals.
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1964 R. L. Folk in Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 48 525/1 An inclusive term, ‘neomorphism’, is herein proposed to embrace the following isocompositional and replacive processes: inversion, recrystallization.., and strain-recrystallization.
1973 Sedimentology 20 549 This selective neomorphism of micritic mud only in pore spaces is probably a function of rapidity of lithification.
1993 P. Kearey Encycl. Solid Earth Sci. 421/1 Although the concept of neomorphism was developed in carbonate sediments, it is also applicable to the diagenetic silica system common in silcretes, precious opal deposits, cherts and marine siliceous oozes.
1995 Jrnl. Sedimentary Res. A. 65 221/2 Stable-isotope results indicate early neomorphism in depositional (marine) pore fluids, after the onset of bacterial organic matter oxidation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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