Defn: One who is versed in the science of morphology.
MORPHOLOGY
Mor*phol"o*gy, n. Etym: [Gr. -logy: cf. F. morphologie.] (Biol.)
Defn: That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.
MORPHON
Mor"phon, n. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology. Haeckel.
Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1. Plastids or elementary organisms. 2. Organs, homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. Antimeres (opposite or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. Metameres (successive or homodynamous parts). 5. Personæ (shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest sense among the higher animals). 6. Corms (stocks or colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has been recently substituted. See Idorgan.
MORPHONOMY
Mor*phon"o*my, n. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: The laws of organic formation.
MORPHOPHYLY
Mor"pho*phy`ly, n. Etym: [Gr. (Biol.)
Defn: The tribal history of forms; that part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal history of functions. Haeckel.