metamorphoses

1. (of an insect or amphibian) undergo metamorphosis, especially into the adult form.

   feed the larvae to your fish before they metamorphose into adults

2. subject (rock) to metamorphism.

   the extreme heat metamorphosed the sandstone, baking it white and producing a quartzite rock

late 16th century: from French métamorphoser, from métamorphose (see metamorphosis).

1. (in an insect or amphibian) the process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.

   the persistence of the larval tail during metamorphosis

   in insects with a complete metamorphosis the wings arise from thickenings of the epidermis

late Middle English: via Latin from Greek metamorphōsis, from metamorphoun ‘transform, change shape’.