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morphometrics, n. pl.|mɔːfəʊˈmɛtrɪks|
[f. as prec.: see -ic 2.]
Morphometry (esp. of living forms); also, morphometric features or properties.
1960Jrnl. Animal Ecol. XXIX. 309 The shape of an animal, of which morphometrics are a numerical expression, is dependent upon genetically transmitted characters and the modifying influence of the environment on them. Ibid. 310 No completely reliable evidence was obtained for either the morphometrics or the behaviour of the parents of two of the populations studied. 1971Blackith & Reyment Multivariate Morphometrics ii. 9 An essential problem in morphometrics is to measure the degree of similarity of two forms. 1974Nature 22 Mar. 303/3 The chapters on multivariate morphometrics and optical data analysis are particularly good. |