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morphology
[mawr-fol-uh-jee]
noun
the branch of biology dealing with the form and structure of organisms.
the form and structure of an organism considered as a whole.
Linguistics.
the patterns of word formation in a particular language, including inflection, derivation, and composition.
the study and description of such patterns.
the study of the behavior and combination of morphemes.
Physical Geography.geomorphology.
the form or structure of anything.
to gain an insight into the morphology of our political system.
the study of the form or structure of anything.
morphology
/ mɔːˈfɒlədʒɪ, ˌmɔːfəˈlɒdʒɪk /
noun
the branch of biology concerned with the form and structure of organisms
the form and structure of words in a language, esp the consistent patterns of inflection, combination, derivation and change, etc, that may be observed and classified
the form and structure of anything
morphology
The size, shape, and structure of an organism or one of its parts. Biologists usually describe the morphology of an organism separately from its physiology. In traditional systems of taxonomy, classifications were based on the morphological characteristics of organisms. However, a method of classification based purely on morphology runs the risk of grouping together organisms that are actually relatively unrelated but have evolved similar features. In more modern systems of taxonomy, the genetic similarity of organisms, studied through the methods of molecular biology, is considered in addition to morphology when establishing taxa.
morphology
The study of the structure of living things. (Compare anatomy and physiology.)
Other 51Թ Forms
- morphologic adjective
- morphological adjective
- morphologically adverb
- morphologist noun
- unmorphological adjective
- unmorphologically adverb
- ˌǰˈDz adverb
- ǰˈDZDz noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of morphology1
Example Sentences
In a paper published January 2025, Reichgelt and collaborator Christopher West compared the shapes of fossil leaves of the Miocene gathered and analyzed in many previous studies with a dataset of modern leaf morphologies.
The high efficiency is the result of several years of intensive materials research and studies of the interaction between the molecules in the material, the so-called morphology.
Genes controlling morphology often respond to several independent enhancers, each determining the expression of the gene in a different body part.
After careful evaluation of the extensive data, the results are now available: they provide detailed information on changes in the morphology and structure of the material, but also on chemical processes during discharge.
Indeed, a crab-like body shape, or morphology, has evolved numerous times independently throughout evolutionary history.
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