metensomatosis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μετενσωμᾰ́τωσῐς (metensōmátōsis).

Noun

metensomatosis (countable and uncountable, plural metensomatoses)

1. A change of body by the soul, reincarnation, metempsychosis.
2. (biology) The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)