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

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway