Associations to the word «Morphology»

Wiktionary

MORPHOLOGY, noun. (uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
MORPHOLOGY, noun. (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
MORPHOLOGY, noun. (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
MORPHOLOGY, noun. (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
MORPHOLOGY, noun. (countable) The form and structure of something.
MORPHOLOGY, noun. (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.

Dictionary definition

MORPHOLOGY, noun. The branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants.
MORPHOLOGY, noun. Studies of the rules for forming admissible words.
MORPHOLOGY, noun. The admissible arrangement of sounds in words.
MORPHOLOGY, noun. The branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope