List: ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org
From: Arthur Shippee
Re: [CT Birds] Southbury Rough-leg
Fri, Jan 24, 2014 10:12 PM
The citations there show morph = "variant form" to be a 1955 coining by JS Huxley; by 1970's, it's used of a stage in the development of, e.g., aphids.
2) This is from the Greek word, where "morphê" means shape or form as it appears, and this English use is a good one.