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morphocline

morphocline noun: a series of morphological transformations that occurs during the evolution of a species.

Noun

morphocline (plural morphoclines)

  1. (evolutionary theory) A series of morphological transformations that occurs during the evolution of a species

Forms of morphocline

pluralmorphoclines

Origin of morphocline

From morpho- + cline. Coined by T. Paul Maslin in 1952.

Questions about morphocline

What does morphocline mean?
Morphocline means a series of morphological transformations that occurs during the evolution of a species.
What part of speech is morphocline?
Morphocline is a noun.
What is the plural of morphocline?
The plural of morphocline is morphoclines.

Words near morphocline in the dictionary

  1. morphobiometrical
  2. morphobiometrically
  3. morphochemical
  4. morphoclimatic
  5. morphoclinal
  6. morphocline
  7. morphoclines
  8. morphocultural
  9. morphocytological
  10. morphodeme
  11. morphodemes

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