morphospace

English

Etymology

From morpho- +‎ space.

Noun

morphospace (plural morphospaces)

  1. (biology) A graphical representation of all the morphologies an organism could or does have, each point of which represents an individual shape.
    • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, page 139:
      Spirals, soap films within wire forms compared to planktonic shapes, and the morpho-space shared by the skulls of chimp, baboon and human

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