morphologist
Americannoun
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morphologists
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Explanation
A morphologist is a person who studies the shape and structure of either living things or words, depending on their field of study. Morphologists study form and structure. In biology, they explore how the shapes of organisms adapt to environments, such as variations in fish fins. In linguistics, they analyze word structures, understanding how different parts form meanings. For instance, a linguistic morphologist would know that the word "morphologist" comes from the Greek word morphē, which means "form," and the suffix -logist, meaning "one who studies."
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“There’s some tantalizing evidence in this paper,” says William Bemis, an evolutionary morphologist at Cornell University.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2023
“It’s an extraordinary behavioral adaptation,” says David Cundall, a functional morphologist at Lehigh University, who was not involved in the research.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 11, 2021
Claus Nielsen, a morphologist affiliated with the Natural History Museum of Denmark and author of the new paper, has followed this controversy, which has unfolded entirely during his retirement, with great interest.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2019
Plant morphologist and lead author Dan Chitwood also presented the study at the Botany 2017 meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, on 27 June.
From Nature ● Jul. 6, 2017
This second objection is the objection of the morphologist.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
He told Popular Mechanics in 2012 that the dinosaur artists working on Jurassic Park were "better animal morphologists than most tenured professors."
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2022
“It seemed almost too good to be true that morphologists working on tarantulas hadn’t already described this.”
From US News ● May 24, 2011
"Mathematical models have always been an important tool for functional morphologists and biomechanicists," says Van Wassenbergh.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 1, 2011
It is held by some morphologists that the mollusc body is unsegmented, and therefore is to be compared to a single segment of a Chaetopod or Arthropod.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
The science of Promorphology has no historical significance; it is interesting only because it illustrates Haeckel's close affinity with the idealistic morphologists.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
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