Usually means: Alteration of text for effect.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. metaplasm: Merriam-Webster
  2. metaplasm, metaplasm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. metaplasm: Collins English Dictionary
  4. metaplasm: Wordnik
  5. metaplasm: Wiktionary
  6. metaplasm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. metaplasm: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Metaplasm, metaplasm: Dictionary.com
  9. Metaplasm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Metaplasm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. metaplasm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Metaplasm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. metaplasm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. metaplasm: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. metaplasm: FreeDictionary.org
  16. metaplasm: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. metaplasm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metaplasm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. metaplasm: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. metaplasm: A Word A Day

Definitions from Wiktionary (metaplasm)

noun:  (linguistics) Any change in a word made by altering its letters or sounds.
noun:  (biology) A small particle (often nutrient) within a cell.

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