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morphospecies

morphospecies noun: a species distinguished from others only by its morphology.

Noun

morphospecies (plural morphospecies)

  1. A species distinguished from others only by its morphology.
    • Their approach is to sort specimens based on their major morphological characteristics, rather than their strict taxonomy. They named this type of pseudotaxonomy the morphospecies approach.2002, Andrew S. Pullin, Conservation Biology, page 160

Forms of morphospecies

pluralmorphospecies

Origin of morphospecies

From morpho- + species.

Questions about morphospecies

What does morphospecies mean?
Morphospecies means a species distinguished from others only by its morphology.
What part of speech is morphospecies?
Morphospecies is a noun.
What is the plural of morphospecies?
The plural of morphospecies is morphospecies.

Words near morphospecies in the dictionary

  1. morphosensitive
  2. morphoses
  3. morphosis
  4. morphospace
  5. morphospaces
  6. morphospecies
  7. morphostage
  8. morphostages
  9. morphostasis
  10. morphostat
  11. morphostatic

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