Morphospecies
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From morpho- + species.
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