Definition of Life form

1. Noun. The characteristic bodily form of a mature organism.


Definition of Life form

1. Noun. The morphology of an organism that distinguishes it from others. ¹

2. Noun. (alternative form of lifeform) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Life Form

life coach
life cot
life cycle
life cycle stages
life cycles
life estate
life estate pur autre vie
life estates
life estates pur autre vie
life eternal
life events
life expectancies
life expectancy
life force
life form
life forms
life history
life imitates art
life imprisonment
life insurance
life is like a box of chocolates
life jacket
life jackets
life line
life long
life lore
life mask
life of Reilly

Literary usage of Life form

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... the mental life form the basis, means, and material for will and character, but in themselves they are only ..."

2. The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution by Alexander Wilford Hall (1880)
"The sterility of hybrids when intercrossed, as in the case of mules and hinnies, is caused by the same confusion into which the governing life-form is ..."

3. Fire Effects Information System: User's Guide by William C. Fischer, Melanie Miller, Cameron M. Johnston, Jane K. Smith (1998)
"Raunkiaer life form classes are used in the Fire Effects Information System because the ... Some species are assigned more than one life form class. ..."

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