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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In biology, stereometric morphology; the morphology of organic forms considered with reference to mathematical figures or to a few fundamental types of structure; the mathematical conception or geometrical treatment of organic form.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) Crystallography of organic forms; -- a division of morphology created by Haeckel. It is essentially stereometric, and relates to a mathematical conception of organic forms. See tectology.

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  • noun biology crystallography of organic forms; a division of morphology relating to a mathematical conception of organic forms

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pro- +‎ morphology

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