morphology
noun
the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
morphologies
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pluralof morphology.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In a paper published January 2025, Reichgelt and collaborator Christopher West compared the shapes of fossil leaves of the Miocene gathered and analyzed in many previous studies with a dataset of modern leaf morphologies.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
By comprehensively capturing 3D morphologies from the entire tissue volume, Tripath performed better than pathologists and outperformed deep learning models that rely on 2D morphology and thin tissue slices.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024
We can select and generate target morphologies by design.
From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023
Once you start introducing these little chemical factories — that's what a bacterium is, a tiny, little chemical factory — there's only three morphologies.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
From this it follows that broadly similar morphologies must have been reached by unrelated languages, independently and frequently.
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
