biomorphic
adjective
bio·mor·phic
ˌbī-ō-ˈmȯr-fik 
: resembling or suggesting the forms of living organisms
biomorphic sculptures
biomorphic images
Examples of biomorphic in a Sentence
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Annie is a biomorphic robot designed by a company called Stella-Handy.
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Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
At once biomorphic and industrial, the Side Chair is now endlessly cribbed and reinterpreted, showing up in high-end restaurants and Brooklyn townhouses.
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
The design enables visuo-haptic nonverbal communication between humans and robots and improves the robot’s aesthetics by enhancing its biomorphic qualities.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Nov. 2023
At his studio in Frogtown, shaping the material into complex organic forms — for example, the negative space in an undulating biomorphic stool’s bronze latticework seat — is one of his most labor-intensive tasks.
—Zoey Poll, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
Having reduced her subjects to their geometric archetypes, Lowman then engagingly tempers the sails’ right-angled simplicity with biomorphic complexity.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
The Australian designer has been selling diaphanous layered tanks and second-skin tops with biomorphic cutouts for years.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 14 July 2023
Yashnyk’s fundamental interest is gender, and her biomorphic mash-ups challenge categories that are more societal than physical in origin.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
Does the painting suggest mathematical or biomorphic ideas?
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
At once biomorphic and industrial, the Side Chair is now endlessly cribbed and reinterpreted, showing up in high-end restaurants and Brooklyn townhouses.
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
The design enables visuo-haptic nonverbal communication between humans and robots and improves the robot’s aesthetics by enhancing its biomorphic qualities.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Nov. 2023
At his studio in Frogtown, shaping the material into complex organic forms — for example, the negative space in an undulating biomorphic stool’s bronze latticework seat — is one of his most labor-intensive tasks.
—Zoey Poll, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
Having reduced her subjects to their geometric archetypes, Lowman then engagingly tempers the sails’ right-angled simplicity with biomorphic complexity.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
The Australian designer has been selling diaphanous layered tanks and second-skin tops with biomorphic cutouts for years.
—José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 14 July 2023
Yashnyk’s fundamental interest is gender, and her biomorphic mash-ups challenge categories that are more societal than physical in origin.
—Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
Does the painting suggest mathematical or biomorphic ideas?
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 May 2022
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“Biomorphic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biomorphic. Accessed 29 Apr. 2024.
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