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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 oforganic forms ; a division ofmorphology relating to amathematical conception of organic forms
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pro- + morphology
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