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English
Noun
metamorphic rock (countable and uncountable, plural metamorphic rocks)
- (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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Translations
one of the major groups of rock that makes up the crust of the Earth
- Afrikaans: metamorfe gesteente
- Arabic: صَخْر مُتَحَوِّل (ṣaḵr mutaḥawwil)
- Armenian: փոխակերպված ապար (pʻoxakerpvac apar)
- Basque: arroka metamorfiko, harri metamorfiko
- Belarusian: метамарфічныя горныя пароды (mjetamarfičnyja hórnyja paródy)
- Bulgarian: метаморфни скали (metamorfni skali)
- Burmese: အသွင်ပြောင်းကျောက် (my) (a.swangpraung:kyauk)
- Catalan: roca metamòrfica
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 變質岩/变质岩 (zh) (biànzhìyán)
- Czech: přeměněná hornina f, metamorfovaná hornina f
- Danish: metamorfe bjergarter
- Dutch: metamorf gesteente (nl) n
- Esperanto: metamorfa roko, metamorfa rokaĵo
- Estonian: moondekivim
- Finnish: metamorfinen kivilaji, muuttunut kivilaji
- French: roche métamorphique (fr)
- Galician: rocha metamórfica (gl)
- Georgian: მეტამორფული ქანები (meṭamorpuli kanebi)
- German: metamorphes Gestein n, Metamorphit
- Greek: μεταμορφωσιγενές πέτρωμα (metamorfosigenés pétroma)
- Hebrew: סלע מותמר
- Hindi: कायांतरित शैल (kāyāntrit śail)
- Hungarian: metamorf kőzet
- Icelandic: umbreytingarberg, myndbreytt berg
- Indonesian: batuan metamorf (id)
- Irish: carraig mheiteamorfach
- Italian: roccia metamorfica
- Japanese: 変成岩 (ja) (へんせいがん, henseigan)
- Kazakh: метаморфтық тау жыныстары (metamorftyq tau jynystary)
- Korean: 변성암(變成岩) (ko) (byeonseong'am)
- Latvian: metamorfais iezis
- Macedonian: метаморфна карпа (metamorfna karpa)
- Malay: batuan metamorfosis
- Maori: toka kāhuarau
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хувирмал чулуулаг (xuvirmal čuluulag), метаморф чулуулаг (metamorf čuluulag)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠪᠢᠷᠠᠮᠠᠯ
ᠴᠢᠭᠠᠯᠤᠯᠢᠭ (qubiramal čiɣalulig), ᠮᠧᠲ᠋ᠠᠮᠣᠷᠹ ᠴᠢᠯᠠᠭᠤᠯᠢᠭ (mētamorf čilaɣulig)
- Nepali: परिवर्तित चट्टान (parivartit caṭṭān)
- Norwegian: metamorf bergart
- Persian: سنگ دگرگونی
- Polish: skały metamorficzne
- Portuguese: pedra metamórfica f, rocha metamórfica f
- Romanian: rocă metamorfică
- Russian: метамо́рфи́ческая поро́да f (metamórfíčeskaja poróda)
- Scottish Gaelic: clach chruth-atharrachail
- Serbo-Croatian: metamorfne stijene
- Slovak: premenená hornina, metamorfovaná hornina
- Slovene: metamorfne kamnine
- Spanish: roca metamórfica f
- Sundanese: batu métamorfosis
- Swedish: metamorf bergart, metamorfit
- Tagalog: banyuhing bato
- Tamil: உருமாறிய பாறை (urumāṟiya pāṟai)
- Thai: หินแปร (hǐn-bprɛɛ)
- Turkish: başkalaşım kayaçları
- Ukrainian: метаморфічні гірські породи (metamorfični hirsʹki porody)
- Vietnamese: đá biến chất
- Western Panjabi: پلٹی پڑی (pnb) (plṭī pṛī)
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