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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Structural morphology which regards an organism as composed of organic individuals of different orders; ordinary morphology, as distinguished from stereomatic morphology, or promorphology.
Wiktionary
- n. biology A Haeckelian division of morphology; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Biol.) A division of morphology created by Haeckel; the science of organic individuality constituting the purely structural portion of morphology, in which the organism is regarded as composed of organic individuals of different orders, each organ being considered an individual. See promorphology, and morphon.
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- Ancient Greek a carpenter + -logy. (Wiktionary)
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