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Morphology

noun

The branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants.

Studies of the rules for forming admissible words.

The admissible arrangement of sounds in words. Synonyms: sound structure, syllable structure, word structure.

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

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inflectional morphology

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"Morphology" Quotes from Famous Books

... will be said about the forms of social organization prevailing amongst peoples of the lower culture. Our interest will be confined to the social morphology. In subsequent chapters we shall go on to what might be called, by way of contrast, the physiology of social life. In other words, we shall briefly consider the legal and religious customs, together with the ...

— Anthropology • Robert Marett

... return from Italy Goethe wrote nothing that is of much importance in the history of his literary life. He devoted himself largely to scientific studies in plant and animal morphology and the theory of color. His discovery of the intermaxillary bone in the human skull, and his theory that the lateral organs of a plant are but successive phases of the leaf, have given him an assured if modest place in the history of the development hypothesis. On the other hand, his long and ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke

... aloud to William Schimper. By and by I shall review the natural history of grasses and ferns, two families of which I made a special study last summer. Twice a week Karl Schimper lectures to us on the morphology of plants; a very interesting course on a subject but little known. He has twelve listeners. Agassiz is also to give us lectures occasionally on Sundays upon the natural history of fishes. You see there is ...

— Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence • Louis Agassiz

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