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A griffin is mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. (from  The Stones of Venice )
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A griffin is mythical beast having the body of a lion and the wings and head of an eagle. (from The Stones of Venice )
Danae (1907-08) by Gustav Klimt depicting Zeus, the master of metamorphosis, as a golden shower.
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Danae (1907-08) by Gustav Klimt depicting Zeus, the master of metamorphosis, as a golden shower.
Heliades' metamorphosis into a tree. Metamorphosis is a common horror trope.
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Heliades' metamorphosis into a tree. Metamorphosis is a common horror trope.

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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
metamorphosis
  1. the act of transforming or the state of being transformed
  2. a marked change in appearance or character, especially one for the better
  3. the replacement of the variables in an algebraic expression by their values in terms of another set of variables; a mapping of one space onto another or onto itself; a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system
  4. a rule that systematically converts one syntactic form into another; a sentence derived by such a rule
  5. the alteration of a bacterial cell caused by the transfer of DNA from another, especially if pathogenic

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