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Morphology   /mɔrfˈɑlədʒi/   Listen
Morphology

noun
1.
The branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants.
2.
Studies of the rules for forming admissible words.
3.
The admissible arrangement of sounds in words.  Synonyms: sound structure, syllable structure, word structure.
4.
The branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms.  Synonym: geomorphology.



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compound morphology
derivational morphology
inflectional morphology
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"Morphology" Quotes from Famous Books



... enlightened and liberal Prince at Weimar, under whose particular protection we in Jena find ourselves, has never conceived it necessary to limit in any way the unbounded freedom of my teaching and my writing; not even when in 1866 my "General Morphology," and 1868 my "History of Creation" first appeared, and when many people attempted to make the youthful extravagances which were to be found in those works the ground of a serious accusation. And what farther mischief ...
— Freedom in Science and Teaching. - from the German of Ernst Haeckel • Ernst Haeckel


Words linked to "Morphology" :   structure, derivational morphology, accidence, biological science, affixation, general anatomy, petrology, lithology, word structure, plate tectonic theory, geophysics, tectonics, geophysical science, morphologic, morphological, grammar, plate tectonics, anatomy, biology


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