morpho-, morph-, -morphous, -morphically, -morphia, -morphosis, -morphously, -morphy, -morphic, -morphism

1. Alteration of rock by material that is added, removed, or exchanged by water solutions, without the influence of high temperature and pressure.
2. The alteration of rock caused by the infiltration of water and the subsequent addition, removal, or exchange of materials in the absence of high temperature or pressure.

1. A kind of metamorphosis, in certain insects, in which the larva itself undergoes remarkable changes of form and structure during its growth.
2. A major change in form between successive stages of larval development; especially, of insects, for example, when an active mobile larva turns into a legless inactive grub.
3. In medicine, an excessive attentiveness and reaction to visual stimuli.

1. A person whose standing height is short in proportion to the sitting height, owing to shortness of limb.
2. A mutant gene that shows only a partial reduction in the activity it influences.

1. Fish-shaped; formed like a fish.
2. Fish-shaped; as, the ichthyomorphic idols of ancient Assyria.

Used to describe a chemical compound that is able to crystallize in a form similar to another chemical compound.

1. A husky muscular body, or someone who has such a body.
2. An individual with a robust, muscular body build caused by the predominance of structures developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer.
3. An individual having a type of body build in which tissues derived from the mesoderm predominate.

There is a relative preponderance of muscle, bone, and connective tissue, usually with a heavy, hard physique; a somatotype (body type) classified between ectomorph (physiological type that is tall with long lean limbs) and endomorph (a stocky build with a prominent abdomen).

1. A reference to a muscular or sturdy body build characterized by the relative prominence of structures developed from the embryonic mesoderm (contrasted with ectomorphic, endomorphic).
2. In chemistry, pertaining to or existing in an intermediate state, as a liquid crystal in the nematic or smectic state.

The use of comparative measurements of form in the classification or analysis of relationships among organisms.