morphologist
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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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“The evidence is compatible with bipedality” but does not prove it, says functional morphologist Chris Ruff of Johns Hopkins University.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 24, 2022
“It’s very confusing why they lost their tail,” said Gabrielle Russo, an evolutionary morphologist at Stony Brook University in New York who was not involved in the study.
From New York Times ● Sep. 21, 2021
On 31 January, plant morphologist Dmitry Sokoloff of Moscow State University and his colleagues published a reanalysis of the data that suggests a different arrangement of key female reproductive structures in the first flower.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 6, 2018
The prospect of fading expertise so worried Friedman that, in 2013, he and his wife, plant morphologist Pamela Diggle of the University of Connecticut in Storrs, launched an intensive botany bootcamp for biologists.
From Nature ● Jan. 22, 2018
Like Lamarck, Charles Darwin was, neither by inclination nor by training, a 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
Many morphologists regard, the ilium as equivalent to, that is, strictly corresponding in its relation, to the scapula, the pubis to the cartilaginous substratum of the clavicle, and the ischium to the coracoid.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Nevertheless, I cannot see that the eager young morphologists who are succeeding us have so very much to teach us after all.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
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