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4. Metameres
(successive or homodynamous parts). 5. Personæ (shoots or buds
of plants, individuals in the narrowest sense among the higher
animals). 6. Corms (stocks or colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the
term idorgan has been recently substituted. See
Idorgan.

Mor*phon"o*my (?), n. [Gr. &?; form +
&?; a law.] (Biol.) The laws of organic
formation.

Mor"pho*phy`ly (?), n. [Gr. &?; form +
&?; a clan.] (Biol.) The tribal history of forms; that
part of phylogeny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in
distinction from the tribal history of functions.
Haeckel.

||Mor*pho"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;
form, fr. &?; form.] (Biol.) The order or mode of
development of an organ or part.

Mor*phot"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; fit for
forming.] (Physiol.) Connected with, or becoming an
integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework;
as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids. Foster.

-mor"phous (?). [Gr. &?; form.] A combining form
denoting form, shape; as, isomorphous.

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