Morphospecies
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Morphospecies is a noun meaning (biology) A species distinguished from others only by its morphology.
Meaning
(biology) A species distinguished from others only by its morphology.
Example Sentences
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include morph, morphotype, morphotaxon, phenospecies, morphoform, morphopopulation.
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