Definition of morphology Morphology

/mɔɹfɑˈlʌʤi/ - [morfalujee] - mor•phol•o•gy

We found 16 definitions of morphology from 6 different sources.

What does morphology mean?

WordNet

Noun Plural: morphologies
morphology - the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
		geomorphology
		geophysical science, geophysics geology that uses physical principles to study properties of the earth
		plate tectonic theory, plate tectonics, tectonics the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust
morphology - studies of the rules for forming admissible words
		grammar the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics)
		accidence, inflectional morphology the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words
		derivational morphology the part of grammar that deals with the derivations of words
morphology - the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
		biological science, biology the science that studies living organisms
morphology - the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
		sound structure, syllable structure, word structure
		structure a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"

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Wiktionary

morphology (Noun)
A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially.
morphology (Noun)
The study of the internal structure of morphemes words and their semantic building blocks.
morphology (Noun)
The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
morphology (Noun)
The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
morphology (Noun)
The form and structure of something.
morphology (Noun)
A description of the form and structure of something.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

morphology (n.)
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.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

morphology
The branch of biology concerned with the form and structure of organisms.
morphology
In linguistics, the study of word structure.

Wikipedia

biology
The term morphology in biology means the outward appearance (shape, structure, colour, pattern) of an organism or taxon and its parts. This is in contrast to physiology, which deals with function.

"Gross morphology", means the principal aspects of an organism or taxon's morphology. A description of an organism's gross morphology would include, for example, its overall shape, overall colour, main markings etc. but not finer details.

Most taxa differ morphologically from other taxa. Typically closely related taxa differ much less than more distantly related ones, but there are exceptions to this.

Cryptic species are species which look very similar, or perhaps even outwardly identical, but are reproductively isolated. But sometimes unrelated taxa develop similar appearance through convergent evolution or even through mimicry.
linguistics
Morphology is a way of studying language (linguistics). It is about the way words are put together, their internal structure.

Words are accepted as being the smallest units of a sentence (syntax). It is clear that in most languages, words can be related to other words by rules. For example, English speakers know that the words "dog", "dogs", and "dog-catcher" are closely related. English speakers simply know these relations from their personal experience (tacit knowledge) of the rules of word formation in English. They simply know that "dog" is to "dogs" as "cat" is to "cats". They know that "dog" is to "dog-catcher" as "dish" is to "dishwasher". These rules come from specific patterns in the way words are formed from smaller units and how those smaller units work together in speech. Morphology is the part of linguistics that studies patterns of word formation within and across languages. Morphology tries to formulate rules that show the knowledge of the speakers of those languages.