morphologist
- noun
- /mɔrˈfɑlədʒɪst/
- Specialized
:
morfólogo
- You're pretty well known as one of the best morphologists in the country.
- structural morphologist
- German morphologist
Examples
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You, suh, are the greatest morphologist in this country.
Fiction book (2002) -
"And I'm not a morphologist, but some of the coprolites looked pretty human."
Academic text (2008) -
Blaire Van Valkenburgh is a paleobiologist and functional morphologist in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Academic text (2009) -
The plant morphologist studied the unique structures of tropical flowers during his research.
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As a marine morphologist, she focused on the shapes and forms of various fish species.
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The morphologist presented his findings on the anatomical differences between mammals and reptiles.
Surface Forms
Morphology
morphologist = morphology (transparent) = morph + logy + ist
The word is built straightforwardly from the base noun 'morphology' plus the person-denoting suffix '-ist'.
Etymology
Morphologist starts with morph, which means 'form' and appears in words like metamorphosis meaning 'change of form', and ends with -logist, which means 'someone who studies'. So a morphologist studies the form or shape of things, for example the bodies of animals or the structure of words.
