morphology

1. (noun) the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
Related Words: anatomy, biological science, biology

2. (noun) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
Synonyms: geomorphology
Related Words: geophysical science, geophysics, petrology, plate tectonics, tectonics

3. (noun) the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
Synonyms: sound structure, syllable structure, word structure
Related Words: affixation, structure

4. (noun) studies of the rules for forming admissible words
Related Words: accidence, compound morphology, derivational morphology, grammar, inflectional morphology



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