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morphology

[mawr-fol-uh-jee] / mɔrˈfɒl ə dʒi /






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"The morphology of C. libererrantes suggests that this species had a similar lifestyle," observes Carolin Haug.

From Science Daily May 25, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

“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

Indeed, a crab-like body shape, or morphology, has evolved numerous times independently throughout evolutionary history.

From Salon Oct. 14, 2024

She would not abandon a daughter to this life, but train her to read the columns of blood and numbers in men’s eyes, to understand the morphology of survival.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

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

"Observing the diversity of the past and the emergence and disappearance of various morphologies helps us better understand these processes, which is particularly important in view of the ongoing biodiversity crisis," says Haug.

From Science Daily Dec. 21, 2023

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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