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morphology
noun as in anatomy
noun as in botany
noun as in grammar
Weak matches
noun as in structure
Example Sentences
“The mosasaurs were still experimenting with new ways of feeding, new morphologies, new lifestyles just before that asteroid came down,” Longrich says.
The morphology of the canine was so similar to a mega-size gray wolf that nobody thought to argue with what seemed like a sure thing.
Still, structure and function go hand-in-hand in biology, so it’s reasonable to expect one day neuroscientists will know how specific neuronal morphologies contribute to activity profiles.
In one, rapid diversification in some aspect of body morphology produces a burst of new species at first, and then speciation slows as the available niches fill up.
Keefe recently published a paper in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society on the morphology of 89 species of frogs from every continent except Antarctica.
Recognition of the pneumococcus depends upon its morphology, the fact that it is Gram-staining, and the presence of a capsule.
Functional morphology of three bats: Sumops, Myotis, Macrotus.
Their influence reaches far beyond the proper sphere of phonetics and invades that of morphology, as we shall see.
Although it is as an anatomist that Nehemiah Grew is best known, his grasp of external morphology is perhaps even more remarkable.
We must recollect that the comparative morphology of the ovule (in the wide sense) was not attempted.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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