a person or thing that has undergone metamorphosis
4. zoology
the rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in certain animals, for example the stage between tadpole and frog or between chrysalis and butterfly
Word origin
C16: via Latin from Greek: transformation, from meta- + morphē form
Examples of 'metamorphoses' in a sentence
metamorphoses
Metamorphoses is a treatise on the art of poetry.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
The collection begins and ends with female metamorphoses.
The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
His career has been full of dramatic metamorphoses.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Woolf's essays are accordingly full of metamorphoses and fantasies, and draw on imagery of clouds, dreams and journeys.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
I can tell the pair have enjoyed effecting these digital metamorphoses, but can't entirely see the point.