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Morphology   Listen
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Morphology  n.  
1.
(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.
2.
(Biol.) The form and structure of an organism.
3.
(Linguistics) The branch of linguistics which studies the patterns by which words are formed from other words, including inflection, compounding, and derivation.
4.
Specifically: The study of the patterns of inflection of words or word classes in any given language; the study of the patterns in which morphemes combine to form words, and the rules for combination; morphemics; as, the morphology of Spanish verbs; also, the inflection patterns themselves.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Morphology" Quotes from Famous Books



... full of evolutionary suggestions; of Etienne Geoffroy St Hilaire, who in 1830, before the French Academy of Sciences, fought with Cuvier, the fellow-worker of his youth, an intellectual duel on the question of descent; of Goethe, one of the founders of morphology and the greatest poet of Evolution—who, in his eighty-first year, heard the tidings of Geoffroy St Hilaire's defeat with an interest which transcended the political anxieties of the time; and of many others who had gained with more or less confidence ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



Words linked to "Morphology" :   sound structure, word structure, geomorphology, compound morphology, geophysical science, tectonics, grammar, rule of morphology, plate tectonics, petrology, affixation, inflectional morphology, morphological, general anatomy



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