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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Morphon \Mor"phon\, n. [Gr. ?, p. pr of ? to form.] (Biol.) A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See {Tectology}. --Haeckel. Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1. Plastids or elementary organisms. 2. Organs, homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. Antimeres (opposite or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. Metameres (successive or homodynamous parts). 5. Person[ae] (shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest sense among the higher animals). 6. Corms (stocks or colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has been recently substituted. See {Idorgan}.
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