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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
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Literary usage of Life form
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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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