单词 | unmetamorphosed |
释义 | unmetamorphosedadj. Not metamorphosed. Now chiefly Geology: that has not undergone metamorphism. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > [adjective] > transformed > not unmetamorphosed1600 inconverted1646 untransformed1890 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. B4v If any rest vnmetamorphosed. 1725 M. Davys Self-rival iv, in Wks. I. 42 Oh, here comes the Colonel unmetamorphosed. 1787 Generous Attachment IV. 35 Many..affect for a time the rank of Captain, but I continue unmetamorphosed. 1849 R. Owen Parthenogenesis 39 Such unmetamorphosed germ-masses. 1880 P. H. Carpenter in Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 15 214 Unmetamorphosed embryonic basals. 1918 W. Lewis Tarr ii. v. 91 He clutches at it eagerly as at something familiar and unmetamorphosed..by Fate. 1979 R. Anderton et al. Dynamic Stratigr. Brit. Isles iii. 29/2 A very thick, deformed and locally metamorphosed succession of sediments and volcanics..is flanked to the northwest and southeast by thin, undeformed and unmetamorphosed sediments. 2002 Jrnl. Petrol. 43 1618/1 Recent studies have concluded that many of these rocks are essentially unmetamorphosed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1600 |
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