Usually means: Rock transformed by heat, pressure.
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  1. metamorphic rock: Vocabulary.com
  2. metamorphic rock: Wiktionary
  3. metamorphic rock: Dictionary.com
  4. Metamorphic rock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. metamorphic rock: Rhymezone
  6. metamorphic rock: FreeDictionary.org
  7. metamorphic rock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. metamorphic rock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metamorphic rock: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. metamorphic rock: Encyclopedia

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. metamorphic rock: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. metamorphic rock: Dictionary of Geology
  6. metamorphic rock: Natural History Terms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. metamorphic rock: Canadian Soil Information System
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (metamorphic rock)

noun:  (geology) one of the major groups of rock that makes up the crust of the Earth; consists of pre-existing rock mass in which new minerals or textures are formed at higher temperatures and greater pressures than those present on the Earth's surface

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