‖ metacrasis
(mɛtəˈkreɪsɪs)
[f. meta- + crasis.]
1. Bot. ‘Kinetic metabolism, transmutation of energy’ (Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 1900).
| 1884 Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 509 The process of metacrasis which produces the duramen. |
2. Geol. (See quot.)
| 1886 Bonney in Proc. Geol. Soc. 59 Metacrasis (recombination), denoting changes like the conversion of a mud into a mass of quartz with mica and other silicates. 1893 Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iv. viii. 596 note, Metacrasis, denoting such transformations as the conversion of mud into a mass of mica, quartz, and other silicates. |