How to Use morphology in a Sentence

morphology

noun
  • The team also used morphology, the study of the size and shape of the bones.
    Eoin McSweeney, CNN, 28 Apr. 2021
  • That morphology is quadrupedal, so DyRET moves like a dog or cat.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Mar. 2021
  • While many shark species have the same tooth morphology throughout, the Port Jackson has teeth that looks different in the front and back.
    Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • However, the new study found that the night side of Venus has its own distinct cloud formations and morphologies.
    Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The morphology of the canine was so similar to a mega-size gray wolf that nobody thought to argue with what seemed like a sure thing.
    Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Don crampons, wield ice picks, and learn how glacial morphology has molded the landscape of the region.
    National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • Levin thinks all this is just the start for synthetic morphology.
    Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Furthermore, these cannabis types differ from the morphology of the plant.
    Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • With all the toing and froing about his morphology, DNA should be a rich source of conclusive data for this man.
    Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
  • But what was depicted as a horror at the body and its fungible morphologies in much of the film auteur's work is in Tiley's a more playful turn.
    Michael Workman, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2017
  • His face shape is a drop, all his silhouette language is a drop, and so the sculpture of Wade reflected this drop morphology.
    Hugh Hart, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
  • And this wax, Serrulla, helped conserve the external morphology of the brains.
    Julia Jones, CNN, 14 July 2017
  • The soil’s shifting morphology was straining the building’s foundation, and the southern part of the building appeared to be sinking.
    Alessio Perrone, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Moreover, when the skeletons of these beasts were studied, their morphology suggested that almost all of them were male.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Humans are trying to catch up, building planes with soft wings that mimic bat morphology.
    Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2019
  • These were based on human sign language but modified for the unique morphology of a gorilla.
    Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The Michigan team plans to continue studying the Field Museum dataset as a next step in its research into bird morphology over time.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2019
  • But Wolf and Tautz, in sequencing only a few short segments of the genome, found genetic differences to match the ones in feeding patterns and morphology.
    Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2021
  • Separation from Great Britain was one step in the morphology of the Revolution.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • Hear how the glacier has receded over the last several decades and how glacial morphology continues to carve the valley and surrounding landscapes.
    National Geographic, 10 Sep. 2019
  • Medical scanners go down to around a 100-micron (a millionth of a meter) voxel size, and that works just fine for humans—our morphology is much bigger than a cat’s or snake’s or bird’s.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Overtourism remains one of the biggest challenges as Santorini’s unique morphology continues to bring in the crowds.
    Elinda Labropoulou, CNN, 26 Apr. 2023
  • For that approach, human morphology is ideal, because all of our tools and environments are built for us.
    IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
  • That said, researchers of the new study did not find any association between cell phone use on motility and morphology.
    Kaitlin Vogel, Health, 17 Nov. 2023
  • So is Tamu a shield volcano that happens to be located at a MOR, or a bizarre spreading center with a uniquely effusive morphology?
    Jeffrey Marlow, Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2015
  • Prior to research findings that highlighted differences in its morphology, the species was called the African Brachiosaurus.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • Splitting off from a type of tanager called a grassquit, the Galápagos finches developed their own morphologies over the course of millions of years of separation.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2023
  • This lack of testing made sense, because living crocodilians have no complex tooth morphologies to analyse—so why bother?
    The Economist, 28 June 2019
  • One of its main objectives was to better understand global geology and morphology of the dwarf planet and its tiny moon Charon.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2018
  • So much of their behavior is best understood through their morphology.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 22 Oct. 2019

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