metensomatosis

English

Etymology

Latin, a change of body (by the soul), from Ancient Greek.

Noun

metensomatosis (countable and uncountable, plural metensomatoses)

(biology) The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “metensomatosis”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)