Metamorphosis vs Metamerism - What's the difference?
metamorphosis | metamerism |
A transformation, such as that of magic or by sorcery
A noticeable change in character, appearance, function or condition.
(biology) 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.)
(pathology) A change in the structure of a specific body tissue. Usually degenerative.
(biology) The segmentation of the body into similar discrete units
(colorimetry ) The matching of apparent color of objects with different spectral power distributions.
(chemistry) structural isomerism
In biology terms the difference between metamorphosis and metamerism
is that metamorphosis is 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. while metamerism is the segmentation of the body into similar discrete units.As nouns the difference between metamorphosis and metamerism
is that metamorphosis is a transformation, such as that of magic or by sorcery while metamerism is the segmentation of the body into similar discrete units.metamorphosis
English
(wikipedia metamorphosis)Noun
(metamorphoses)Derived terms
* metramorphosismetamerism
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Whilst the new paint was a good metameric match under natural light, it looked odd under a fluorescent light.