morphographicadj.

1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Morphographicus,..morphographic.

1899 Proc. Royal Soc. 1898–9 64 71 With economy to the organism, very simple secreting cells produce a result similar in effect to that which would be attained by morphographic skeletogenous tissues of far more complex heredity.

1935 Science 4 Jan. 16/1 A durable task of genetic psychology is to find among the multitudinous patterns of infancy, similarities, modalities and growth-trends which are so fundamental that they give token of the adult, who is to be. This, I would hold, is first of all of a morphological or a morphographic task.

1983 Bot. Jrnl. Linn. Soc. 86 1 The classification of Proterozoic microfossils is reviewed and a morphographic scheme adopted.

1997 Internat. Jrnl. Plant Sci. 158 679/2 From the key morphographic parameters, it is evident that the greatest variation in the gross morphology of taeniate, bisaccate pollen grains is the corpus dimensions.