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morphology

[mawr-fol-uh-jee] / mɔrˈfɒl ə dʒi /






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Also, these issues are not confined to one make or model but to the morphology.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

"I think our work provides an important perspective on how much we can learn from studying morphology," Ferraioli explains.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 6, 2026

"There are also several bones with differing morphology that haven't been investigated before that I'm interested in looking at. These might represent new taxa and offer additional clues about snake evolution."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025

“Axon morphology in living animals is under constant and dynamic change,” says neuroscientist Tong Wang from ShanghaiTech University, who has studied beading in diseased neurons.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 2, 2024

Barley has the further advantage that its genetics and morphology permit it to evolve quickly the useful changes in seed dispersal and germination inhibition that we discussed in the preceding chapter.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

In a paper published January 2025, Reichgelt and collaborator Christopher West compared the shapes of fossil leaves of the Miocene gathered and analyzed in many previous studies with a dataset of modern leaf morphologies.

From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025

As the researchers report in the journal Physical Review X, their results show that hexagonal morphologies -- in other words, six-sided structures -- such as molecules with six binding sites are ideal for self-assembly.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 4, 2024

We can select and generate target morphologies by design.

From Scientific American ● May 31, 2023

Once you start introducing these little chemical factories — that's what a bacterium is, a tiny, little chemical factory — there's only three morphologies.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022

From this it follows that broadly similar morphologies must have been reached by unrelated languages, independently and frequently.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir




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