morphologicadj.

1872 R. G. Latham Dict. Eng. Lang. Morphologic, Morphological, connected with, relating to, constituted by, Morphology [Morphology, doctrine of the fundamental identity of the parts constituting the flower..and fruit..with the leaf].

1877 J. E. Carpenter tr. C. P. Tiele Outl. Hist. Relig. Introd. 2 It is really history, and not a morphologic arrangement of religions.

1891 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 2 365 The morphologic properties of crystals, that is to say, their outer forms and their structural planes,..are among their most important properties.

1936 Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists 20 859 The peculiar morphologic phenomenon of deep-sea trenches..is confined to the peri-Pacific-Malayan region.

1944 Federation Proc. (Federation Amer. Soc. Exper. Biol.) 3 231/1 An..account of the morphologic changes in muscle following denervation.

1962 H. E. Thalmann tr. J. Goguel Tectonics ii. 6 The use of morphologic analysis to distinguish rock types..involves great risks of error.

1988 Nature 11 May 157/1 Bacteria and yeast have traditionally been identified by analysing a series of heterogeneous phenotypes, primarily morphologic and metabolic properties.

1936 J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. xi. 158 This morphologic pattern no doubt is as highly evolved as the English.

1961 A. Juilland Outl. Gen. Theory Struct. Relations iii. 52 Morphologic segmentation has been explored especially by American structuralists.

1975 Language 51 142 This fact speaks for the morphologic antiquity of all Type A infinitives cognate with those of Vedic.

1992 Lit. & Ling. Computing 7 114/2 The Morphologic Analyser..is a general purpose device, based on a context-free grammar and a morphologic lexicon, that is able to assign to each word the appropriate part-of-speech.