Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Descriptive morphology; the systematic investigation, tabulation, and description of the structure of animals, including comparative anatomy, histology, and embryology, and the distribution of animals in time and in space, with special reference to their classification; general or systematic zoölogy.
- noun The descriptive science of land forms.
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"crystallography of the organic," and to lay the foundations of a mechanistic morphology, or morphography at least.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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