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morphologist

American  
[mawr-fahl-uh-jist] / mɔrˈfɑl ə dʒɪst /

noun

plural

morphologists
  1. a specialist in morphology.


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Yet how tongues came about “is one of the biggest mysteries in our evolutionary history,” says Sam Van Wassenbergh, a functional morphologist at the University of Antwerp.

From Science Magazine • May 24, 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

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

Physiology then had not really come into contact with the problems of form, and it could give the morphologist no direct help when he turned to investigate the causes of form-production.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell