metamorphic

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

adjective of or relating to metamorphosis (especially of rocks)
adjective characterized by metamorphosis or change in physical form or substance

From metamorphosis + -ic.

Anthracite coal occurs in folded and metamorphic rocks. — Commercial Geography: A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw) Redway
Since slate is no more than a metamorphic formation into which a sedimentary stratum is pressed, and since the pressure itself produces odd distorting effects on any markings which may exist, I saw no reason for extreme wonder over the striated depression. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
Two or three hours’ railway travel through vertical cuttings in metamorphic rock, through oak copses rich and green, stretching over slopes and down delightful valleys, glens, and ravines, sparkling with water like many-rilled Ida, and he plunged amid the hundred and fifty thousand people composing the town of Plymouth. — A pair of blue eyes, Thomas Hardy

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