metaplasm noun. ['mɛtǝplaz(ǝ)m] L16.
[In sense 1 from Latin metaplasmus, Greek metaplasmos, from metaplassein: see METAPLASIA In sense 2 from META- + PROTO)PLASM.]
1. In Rhetoric, the transposition of words from their usual or natural order; in Grammar, the alteration of a word by addition, removal, or transposition of letters or syllables. L16.

2. Biology. The non-living constituents of cytoplasm, such as pigment granules. L19.

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