Friday, July 31, 2009

Transformers Transforming

Metemorphers Morphing

METAMORPHISIS
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.is a biological process by which an animal physically develops after birth or hatching, involving a conspicuous and relatively abrupt change in the animal's body structure through cell growth and differentiation.

From The Online Etymology Dictionary
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=Metamorphosis&searchmode=none
The word "metamorphosis" derives from Greek μεταμόρφωσις, "transformation, transforming"
μετα- (meta-), "change"
μορφή (morfe) "form"

1533, "change of form or shape, especially by witchcraft," from L., from Gk. metamorphosis "a transforming," from metamorphoun "to transform," from meta- "change" (see meta-) + morphe "form" (see morphine). Metamorphic, in geological sense, is first attested 1833, in Lyell; rocks whose form has been changed by heat or pressure.