Anagrams of: METABASIS

• A variety of long-grain rice, notable for its fragrance.

• an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:

• naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion

• A means of defense formed by felled trees, or sometimes by bent trees, the ends of whose branches are sharpened and directed outwards, or against the enemy, and more recently fortified with barbed wire.

• In the middle ages, an officer of the stables who had the care of measuring out the provender; an avenor.

• In fortification, a barricade made of felled trees denuded of their smaller branches, with the butt-ends of the trunks embedded in the earth or secured by pickets, and the sharpened ends of the branches directed upward and outward toward an advancing enemy, for the purpose of obstructing his progress. In field-fortifications the abatis is usually constructed in front of the ditch. See fortification.

• In coal-mining, walls of cord-wood piled up crosswise to keep the underground roads open so as to secure ventilation.

• area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing

• large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood

• music composed for dancing the samba

• a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa

• a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers

• dance the samba

• large west African tree having large palmately lobed leaves and axillary cymose panicles of small white flowers and one-winged seeds; yields soft white to pale yellow wood

• music composed for dancing the samba

• a lively dance from Brazil, with roots from Africa

• a form of canasta using three decks of cards and six jokers

• dance the samba