biomorphicadj.

1882 F. von Müller Systematic Census Austral. Plants (front matter) Who as leaders in phytography during more than a generation's time will be pre-eminent in biomorphic science through all ages.

1895 F. von Müller in Memorials Jrnl. & Bot. Corr. C. C. Babington (1897) p. xlvi We fully recognise the important bearings of Professor Babington's discoveries and work towards biomorphic knowledge.

1895 A. C. Haddon Evol. Art 188 Biomorphic Pottery.

1932 Amer. Anthropologist 34 151 Twenty-two pages of text with twenty text figures of biomorphic designs.

1960 H. Read Forms of Things Unknown iii. x. 165 Some are biomorphic, reminiscent of cellular structures as revealed by the microscope.

2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 25 Sept. 48/2 Gorky was attracted simultaneously to Picasso's pre-Cubist work of 1906, in the Neoclassical work of the 1920s, and to his wilder biomorphic work of the late 1920s and early 1930s.

1948 I. Rouse in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians IV. iii. 516 The Taino Indians typically manufactured incised rather than painted pottery and biomorphically rather than geometrically carved stone objects.

2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 20 Feb. e ii. 36/1 [She] presents beautifully tended plants, from miniature to small tree-size, in biomorphically shaped planters.