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metaplasm

metaplasm noun: any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.

Noun

metaplasm (plural metaplasms)

  1. (rhetoric) Any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.
  2. A small particle (often nutrient) within a cell.

metaplasm meaning in Tamil, Tagalog and Arabic

metaplasm in Tamil

அனுமுதலுரு

metaplasm in Tagalog

biology: small particle within a cell
lakdawkaphay

metaplasm in Arabic

linguistics: alteration of a word’s letters or sounds
تغيير

Forms of metaplasm

pluralmetaplasms

Origin of metaplasm

From Latin metaplasmus from Ancient Greek μεταπλασμός (metaplasmós).

Words formed from metaplasm

Questions about metaplasm

What does metaplasm mean?
Metaplasm means any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.
What is metaplasm in Tamil?
Metaplasm in Tamil is அனுமுதலுரு. See Metaplasm meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is metaplasm?
Metaplasm is a noun.
What is the plural of metaplasm?
The plural of metaplasm is metaplasms.

Words near metaplasm in the dictionary

  1. metapipelining
  2. metaplasia
  3. metaplasias
  4. metaplasic
  5. metaplasis
  6. metaplasm
  7. metaplasmic
  8. metaplasms
  9. metaplast
  10. metaplastic
  11. metaplastic carcinoma

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metaplasm (page history and authors); metaplasm (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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