(biology) The study of the effect of climate on periodic biological phenomena.
Related terms
* phenological
phrenology
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(medicine, biology) The science, now generally discredited, which studies the relationships between a person's character and the morphology (structure) of the skull.
Phrenology involves feeling the bumps in the skull to determine an individual's psychological attributes.
Both a torch and a star are considered to be luminous objects. In order for us to see an object that is non-luminous, it must reflect some of the light it receives from a luminous source, such as the Sun.