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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology, the laws of morphology; the observed sequence of cause and effect in organic formation; that department of biology which investigates the principles of organic formation or configuration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The laws of organic formation.
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- noun biology, archaic The
laws oforganic formation .
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Ancient Greek form + a law.
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