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morpho
1[ mawr-foh ]
noun
, plural mor·phos.
- any of various large, tropical American butterflies of the genus Morpho, having brilliant blue, iridescent wings with an underside of brown or gray and eyelike spots.
morpho-
2- a combining form meaning “form, structure,” used in the formation of compound words:
morphology.
morpho-
combining_form
- indicating form or structure
morphology
- morpheme
morphophonemics
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Word History and Origins
Origin of morpho1
First recorded in 1850–55; from New Latin Morphō, genus name, from Greek Morphṓ “the Shapely, the Beautiful” (an epithet of Aphrodite in Sparta), akin to morphḗ “form, shape, figure, beauty”
Origin of morpho2
< Greek, combining form of morphḗ
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Word History and Origins
Origin of morpho1
from Greek morphē form, shape
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Example Sentences
Then one day a fortunetelling machine called the Morpho appears in the general store, promising to reveal one’s true potential.
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“I’m Morpho, and I’m going to eat your brains!”
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Chet loved Morpho even more than the rest of them did.
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He’d seen the Morpho movie seven times.
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“They were probably too scared of Morpho to think straight,” he suggested.
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