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-morphous

  1. a combining form with the meaning “having the shape, form, or structure” of the kind or number specified by the initial element, used in the formation of compound words:

    polymorphous.

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Origin of -morphous1

Representing Greek -morphos, adj. derivative of morphḗ form; -ous

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