单词 | morphologist |
释义 | morphologistn. An expert in or student of morphology. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > study > person who studies > [noun] > morphology morphologist1845 promorphologist1883 morphographer1888 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > branch of knowledge > systematic knowledge, science > [noun] > scientist > concerned with structure or classification taxonomist1835 morphologist1845 homologist1849 taxonomer1881 taxinomist1899 1845 W. Whewell Indic. Creator 34 The morphologists have declared..that they could not allow themselves to ascribe to the Creator any intention. 1857 Edinb. New Philos. Jrnl. 5 119 It is..incumbent on the morphologist to ascertain in what respects they correspond. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 616 But for the morphologist the eruption still runs from dorsum to venter. 1935 Geol. Mag. 72 181 The real need of the morphologist is a knowledge of the actual average gradients between any two available (and adjacent) contours. 1972 D. Herbert Urban Geogr. iii. 66 The necessity to incorporate the physical fabric of towns into more general theories of urban growth has long been advocated by urban morphologists. 1989 A. J. Jeffreys in J. R. Durant Human Origins vi. 92 Whether pygmy chimps are really a smaller version of common chimpanzees—in morphologists' jargon, whether the differences are ‘allometric’—has been a point of much debate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1845 |
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