Morphospace

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A graphical representation of all the morphologies an organism could or does have, each point of which represents an individual shape.

    "Spirals, soap films within wire forms compared to planktonic shapes, and the morpho-space shared by the skulls of chimp, baboon and human"

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"Spirals, soap films within wire forms compared to planktonic shapes, and the morpho-space shared by the skulls of chimp, baboon and human"

Etymology

From morpho- + space.

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