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Plural of metamorphosis

irregular plural

The plural of metamorphosis is metamorphoses.

Forms of metamorphosis

Singularmetamorphosis /ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfəsɪs/
Pluralmetamorphoses
Countablecountable and uncountable

Metamorphoses in a sentence

  • "Metamorphoses . . ." is the title of a book of telltales (or serialised fables) written by Lucius Apulei¡us, a neo-platonist priest in the second century A.D.2012, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, The Origins of Life, page 130. From the entry telltale

Meaning of metamorphosis

  1. noun A transformation, such as one performed by magic.
  2. noun A noticeable change in character, appearance, function, or condition.
  3. noun A change in the form and often habits of an animal after the embryonic stage during normal development (e.g. the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly or a tadpole into a frog).

Full definition of metamorphosis

Nouns ending in -is: plural -es

Questions about the plural of metamorphosis

What is the plural of metamorphosis?
The plural of metamorphosis is metamorphoses.
Is metamorphosis countable?
Metamorphosis is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metamorphosis (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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