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morphostasis

morphostasis noun: the maintenance of a system's current form when its environment changes.

Noun

morphostasis (uncountable)

  1. The maintenance of a system's current form when its environment changes

Origin of morphostasis

From morpho- + stasis.

Questions about morphostasis

What does morphostasis mean?
Morphostasis means the maintenance of a system's current form when its environment changes.
What part of speech is morphostasis?
Morphostasis is a noun.

Words near morphostasis in the dictionary

  1. morphospace
  2. morphospaces
  3. morphospecies
  4. morphostage
  5. morphostages
  6. morphostasis
  7. morphostat
  8. morphostatic
  9. morphostats
  10. morphostratigraphic
  11. morphostratigraphy

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