noun
- a scientist who studies morphology, the form and structure of organisms or words
Usage: scientific
Examples
- The morphologist examined the butterfly’s wing structure under a microscope.
- As a plant morphologist, she specialized in studying leaf shapes and arrangements.
- The linguistic morphologist analyzed how prefixes and suffixes change word meanings.
- The morphologist’s research focused on how animal body plans evolved over time.
- Medical morphologists study the structure of cells and tissues to diagnose diseases.
- The morphologist compared skull shapes across different primate species.