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morphology |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Morphology \Mor*phol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? form + -logy: cf F. morphologie.] (Biol.) That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See {Tectology}, and {Promorphology}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: morphology n 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 [syn: {sound structure}, {syllable structure}, {word structure}] 4: the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms [syn: {geomorphology}]
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