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Definition of Biomorphic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Biomorphic

Literary usage of Biomorphic

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

1. A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents by James Martineau (1900)
"With the religious theory, therefore, all other speculations respecting the origin of Nature also are swept away; and no biomorphic or ..."

2. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred Cort Haddon (1907)
"... E. biomorphic Pottery. In the description of the primitive methods of pottery manufacture, allusion was made to the fact that vegetable and animal forms ..."

3. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred Cort Haddon (1895)
"... E. biomorphic Pottery. In the description of the primitive methods of pottery manufacture, allusion was made to the fact that vegetable and animal forms ..."

4. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yale University (1911)
"While many of these are richly ornamented with biomorphic motives, the specimen as a whole is not a complete ..."

5. The Amsterdam School by Maristella Casciato (1996)
"His furniture was the result of an imaginative examination of folk art and had a highly tormented, plastic potency due to the recurrent use of biomorphic ..."

6. Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future by National Research Council (U.S.). (2006)
"Examples include (1) biomorphic aircraft, such as ornithopters, that could maneuver robustly in complex environments and (2) hunter-killer aircraft that ..."

7. Sculpture in Rotterdam by Jan van Adrichem, Jelle Bouwhuis, Mariette Dölle (2002)
"... with its poetic, biomorphic shapes, refers to the animal and plant world. The boundary line between abstract and figurative is translated by Calder into ..."

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