Definitions
Change smoothly from one form or shape into another.
Word origin
Back-formation from morpheme, from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Compare German Morph, from Morphem. Attested since the 1940s.
Used in a sentence
“Bq. ezpel ['box tree'] likely goes back to *ez-, a morph found in Basque tree names, and *-bel 'dark'.”
“Briefly, the yellow morphic males can change their status from paired to satellite and from satellite to the paired one. However, they cannot cross into the status of the red morph.”
“Meta leapt forward. In midair his lower half morphed, and suddenly he was one-half humanoid, one-half coiled spring.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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