morphological similarity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmorphologicalandsimilarity
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morphological
adjective
uk/ˌmɔː.fəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌmɔːr.fəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
biologyspecialized
relating to the scientific study of the structure and form of animals ...
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similarity
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌsɪm.ɪˈlær.ə.ti/us/ˌsɪm.əˈler.ə.t̬i/
the fact that people or things look or are ...
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Within this genus, several species groups have been recognized on the basis ofmorphologicalsimilarity, although their monophyly appears uncertain.
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Having a certain ancestry and being a member of a reproductive community is more important thanmorphologicalsimilarityfor determining our species membership.
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Given itsmorphologicalsimilarity, we presume that this species is granivorous.
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This is not only due to themorphologicalsimilarityof cryptic or sibling species but also to inadequate descriptions.
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As previously, taxa are arranged alphabetically within groups, and the groupings at each level of classification are believed to represent phylogenetically related assemblages of species based principally onmorphologicalsimilarity.
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In view of themorphologicalsimilarityof the supposedly different species of spirochaetes and their individual variations in virulence, we may well doubt if any of the "species" are valid.
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Orchids were traditionally defined bymorphologicalsimilarity(structure of their flowers and other parts).
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Themorphologicalsimilarityof all six species shows that little evolutionary change has taken place recently for these ancient fish.
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They can further be subdivided in theirmorphologicalsimilarityto the thorax.
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The second component is to compare morphological similarities among the languages in question.
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Given their morphological similarities, we wondered whether regeneration niche dissimilarity was a prerequisite to community membership.
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They have many morphological similarities to the aleurone cells around the starchy endosperm.
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To discover a cladistic relationship researchers relied on as large a number of morphological similarities among species as could be defined and tabulated.
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They are often difficult to distinguish from related species because of morphological similarities across genera.
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They have established regular phonological correspondences, observed morphological similarities, and reconstructed a proto-language in accordance with the accepted methodology.
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Many of the morphological similarities and adaptations to freshwater habitats arose due to convergent evolution; thus, a grouping of all river dolphins is paraphyletic.
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The idea of phonemic spelling has also been criticized as it would hide morphological similarities between words with different pronunciations, and thus obscure their meanings.
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This separation is based mainly on morphological similarities between family groups.
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