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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Morphon \Mor"phon\, n. [Gr. [?], p. pr. of [?] to form.] (Biol.) A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See {Tectology}. --Haeckel. Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1. Plastids or elementary organisms. 2. Organs, homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. Antimeres (opposite or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. Metameres (successive or homodynamous parts). 5. Person[91] (shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest sense among the higher animals). 6. Corms (stocks or colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has been recently substituted. See {Idorgan}. | |
