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词根:morph = form (形)

  来源拉丁语的morph 意为 form 。同义词根为form。
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 (来源希腊文morphē —— 英文根字典)

  [探源]①来源于希腊语 morphe 形状;②来源于希腊神话人物:Morpheus 莫耳甫斯,即睡梦之神,他是 Hypnos 睡神的儿子;③来源基础词 morph 变体,与之同形,含义为它的引申义,理解为:变种 / 变体后的东西一般会变形,即

变种 / 变体
  [引申]形状 / 形态 / 形式
  [属性]母义:-morph- = form/ shape 形态 / 现状
  [其他]① -morpho- 为 -morph- 的变体,用于辅音前,而它则用于元音前 ; 它们的形容词形式为:morphic- / morphous-,表示“具有…形式 / 形状”;②有异形同义词根:-figur- / -form- 形 / 形状
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同源词:

1. amorphouse (没有形状的;无一定方向(或目的)的;无组织的
  A nebula (exploding star) often leaves an amorphous cloud of dust and gas. 星云(爆炸的恒星)往往留下由灰尘和气体组成的不定形云体)

2. anthropomorphism
  n.拟人论,拟人观 *anthrop ( =man)

3. metamorphose
  v.(使)变形;[地](使)变质 *meta(=change)

4. metamorphosis
  n.变形;质变;[生]变态(外貌、性格或环境等的)彻底(或显著)的变化 (meta- (=change) + morpho (=form) + -sis (=condition,act))
  the metamorphosis in the life of an insect 昆虫的变态
  the social metamorphosis that has occurred in South Korea 在韩国发生的显著的社会变化

5. morpheme
  n.[语]语素,词素

6. morphology (-logy (n.) 表示“…学”)
  n.[生]形态学;[语]形态学;形态;结构(研究形态的学问)

7. morphological
  adj.形态学的,地形学的

8. heteromorphic
  adj. 异形的,变形的《hetero = different》

9. isomorphic
  adj.同形的;异种同形的《iso- = equal》

10. dimorphic
  adj.二形的 ,二态的(-ic (a.) 表示“…的”(形容有两种形态的,即二形的 / 二态的))

11. trimorph (tri- 三(tri- 三 + -morph- 形,即三形体))
  n. (同质矿物结成三种不同的晶体的)三形体

10. polymorphic (=polymorphous)
  adj.多形的,多形态的 (poly = many)

13. homomorphic (-ic (a.) 形容词后缀,表示“…的”(形容有相同形状的,即同形的))
 n. 同形的

14. geomorphic
  adj.似地球形状的《geo = 地》

词根词缀:folio-, foli-, folii-

【来源及含义】Latin: leaf, leaves; a plant's device for intercepting light, obtaining and storing water and nutrients, exchanging gases, and providing a process for photosynthesis

【同源单词】acutifoliate, amplexifoliate, angustifoliate, antifoliate, bifoliate, bifoliation

词根词缀:libr-, libel

【来源及含义】Latin: book; originally, the "inner bark of a tree", whence "the text written on this", "collection of leaves for writing", and finally "book"

【相关词根词缀】 Related book unit: biblio-.

【同源单词】Cave ab homine unius libri, ex libris, exlibris, interlibrary loan, lending library, libel

词根词缀:oxal-, ox-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: wood sorrel; the leaves of the wood sorrel are acidic to the taste

【同源单词】hyperoxaluria, oxalate, oxalated, oxalation, oxalemia, oxalic acid

词根词缀:palmati-

【来源及含义】Latin: marked with the palm of the hand; adorned with palm leaves; used primarily in the sense of "having five lobes that diverge from a common center" [as fingers from an open palm]

【同源单词】fassipalmate, palmate, palmature, semipalmate, semipalmated, totipalmate

词根词缀:phyllo-, phyll-, -phyll, -phyllous

【来源及含义】Greek: leaf, leaves

【同源单词】aphyllous, aphylly, aphytic, chloroformization, diphyllous, eleutherophyllous

词根词缀:thymo-1, thym-, thymi-

【来源及含义】Greek > Modern Latin: thymus gland, glands; warty glanular growth resembling a bunch of thyme [aromatic bush leaves]

【同源单词】thymectomize, thymectomy, thymic, thymicolymphatic, thymitis, thymocyte