retromorphosis
noun
1 (Biology and Medicine ) change or development that is considered to be retrograde or regressive; retrograde metamorphosis; an instance of this (now rare ).
2 Geology retrograde metamorphism.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- elephant grass
- elephant hawkmoth
- elephantiasis
- elephantine
- elephantoid
- Elephant Pass
- elephant seal
- elephant shrew
- elephant-snout fish
- Eleusinian mysteries
- Eleuthera
- elev.
- elevate
- elevated
- elevation
- elevational
- elevator
- elevator music
- elevator pitch
- elevatory
- eleven
- elevenfold
- eleven-plus
- elevenses
- eleventh