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n. - The branch of science that deals with the structure of animals and plants; The branch of science that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms; The admissible arrangement of sounds in words;

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  • Fact sheets describe the morphology of each tree in text and in photographs of bark, twigs, fruits and leaves.
  • It is what we call morphology, which consists in tracing out the unity in variety of the infinitely diversified structures of animals and plants.
  • Shared morphology is just one of them, but not the only one.
  • Richardthughes: see makers of common ancestry in morphology and genetics,
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