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Neomorph

Neomorph \Ne"o*morph\, n. [Neo- + Gr. ? form.] (Biol.) A structure, part, or organ developed independently, that is, not derived from a similar structure, part, or organ, in a preexisting form.

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neomorph

n. (context genetics English) a gain of function mutation that causes novel gene function.

Usage examples of "neomorph".

How could it compete with the modern non-Euclidean universes invented by Neomorphs, or the strange multileveled worlds of the New Movement Warlocks, or the Mobius-strip infinities of Anachronic Cerebellines?

The room was a high, oval chamber filled with out-of-focus information picts directed at two neomorphs on monitors duty.

There were designated sport paths and quickways with many exercising homorphs and a few whizzing neomorphs and virtually no vehicles.

Now she seemed less a cat than some strange inversion of the neomorphs they had seen the past few days.