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  2. Metamorphosis - Wikipedia

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    A dragonfly in its final moult, undergoing metamorphosis, it begins transforming from its nymph form to an adult. Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops including birth transformation or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation. [1]

  3. The Metamorphosis - Wikipedia

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    The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation, [1] is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915.One of Kafka's best-known works, The Metamorphosis tells the story of salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself inexplicably transformed into a huge insect (German: ungeheueres Ungeziefer, lit. "monstrous vermin") and struggles to adjust to ...

  4. Bianhua - Wikipedia

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    Bianhua, meaning 'transformation' or 'metamorphosis', was a keyword developed in both Daoism and Chinese Buddhism.Daoists used bianhua describing things transforming from one type to another, such as from a caterpillar to a butterfly.

  5. Metamorphoses in Greek mythology - Wikipedia

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    When disaster struck Autonous and his family, Zeus and Apollo took pity in them and changed them into birds. Autonous became a stone-curlew (oknos in Greek, meaning "slow", because he was slow in saving his son Anthus). The family's unnamed manservant became a heron, although not the same heron as Erodius, another of Autonous's sons, turned into.

  6. Metamorphoses - Wikipedia

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    Most of Prospero's renunciative speech in Act V of The Tempest is taken word-for-word from a speech by Medea in Book VII of the Metamorphoses. [40] Among other English writers for whom the Metamorphoses was an inspiration are John Milton —who made use of it in Paradise Lost , considered his magnum opus , and evidently knew it well [ 35 ] [ 41 ...

  7. Nymph (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Two Schistocerca gregaria nymphs beside an adult. In biology, a nymph (from Ancient Greek νύμφα nūmphē meaning "bride") is the juvenile form of some invertebrates, particularly insects, which undergoes gradual metamorphosis (hemimetabolism) before reaching its adult stage. [1]

  8. Trump says Palestinians would not have a right to return to Gaza

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    U.S. President Donald Trump said Palestinians would not have the right of return to the Gaza Strip under his proposal to redevelop the enclave, according to excerpts from a Fox News interview. In ...

  9. Metamorphosis (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth. Metamorphosis may also refer to: Metamorphism, a geological process;