Meaning of MORPHOLOGY
| Pronunciation: | | 'morfulowgee
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- [n] the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
- [n] the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
- [n] the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
- [n] studies of the rules for forming admissible words
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| | Synonyms: | | geomorphology, sound structure, syllable structure, word structure |
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| | See Also: | | accidence, affixation, anatomy, biological science, biology, compound morphology, derivational morphology, geophysical science, geophysics, grammar, inflectional morphology, petrology, plate tectonic theory, plate tectonics, structure, tectonics | |
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| | Definition: | | \Mor*phol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? form + -logy: cf. F.
morphologie.] (Biol.)
That branch of biology which deals with the structure of
animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and
describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses.
See {Tectology}, and {Promorphology}.
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| | Definition: | | The science of the form and structure of organisms (plants, animals, and other forms of life). |
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| | Definition: | | The form and structure of an organism or part of an organism; the study of form and structure. |
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| | Definition: | | the study of structure, including the system by which speech units are combined to form meaningful words. |
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| | Related Terms: | | accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, anatomist, anatomy, angiography, angiology, anthropotomy, bound morpheme, bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation, descriptive grammar, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, difference of form, dingdong theory, enclitic, etymology, form, formative, free form, generative grammar, geomorphology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, grammatical analysis, grammatical theory, grammaticality, graphemics, histologist, histology, historical linguistics, IC analysis, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, inflection, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphologist, morphophonemics, myography, myology, organography, organology, osteography, osteology, paleography, paradigm, parsing, philology, phonetics, phonology, phrase-structure grammar, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, psycholinguistics, radical, root, rules of language, school grammar, semantics, sociolinguistics, splanchnography, splanchnology, stem, stratificational grammar, structural grammar, structuralism, suffix, suffixation, syntactics, tagmemic analysis, tectology, theme, traditional grammar, transformational grammar, transformational linguistics, word-formation, zootomy |
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