morphology

n., pl., -gies.

1. 1. The branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of organisms without consideration of function.
   2. The form and structure of an organism or one of its parts: the morphology of a cell; the morphology of vertebrates.
2. Linguistics. The study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds.

morphological mor'pho·log'i·cal (-fə-lŏj'ĭ-kəl) or mor'pho·log'ic adj.
morphologically mor'pho·log'i·cal·ly adv.
morphologist mor·phol'o·gist n.

n

The branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of an organism or part, without regard to function.

1. The study of form. However, the term is now used as a synonym for the form itself as in the morphology of the landscape or of the city.

2. In geolinguistics, the phonological shapes of words that adapt to special grammatical functions. Some words, for example, inflect to make a past tense, as in ‘walk’, ‘walked’; others are the basis from which additional words may be derived as in ‘hard’, ‘hardness’.

For more information on morphology, visit Britannica.com.

(mawr-fol-uh-jee)

The study of the structure of living things. (Compare anatomy and physiology.)

The science of the forms and structure of organisms; the form and structure of a particular organism, organ, tissue or cell.

The study of the form and structure of plants and animals.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - morfologi

Nederlands (Dutch)
morfologie

Français (French)
n. - morphologie

Deutsch (German)
n. - Morphologie

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μορφολογία

Italiano (Italian)
morfologia

Português (Portuguese)
n. - morfologia (f)

Русский (Russian)
морфология

Español (Spanish)
n. - morfología

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - morfologi, formlära

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
形态学, 形态论, 词态学

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 形態學, 形態論, 詞態學

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 형태학[론], 조직

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 形態学, 語形論, 形態論, 地形学, 組織

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) علم التشكل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חקר הצורות הלשוניות בשפה, מורפולוגיה‬

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