| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mor·phol·o·gy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  môr-f l  -j |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. mor·phol·o·gies
1a. The branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of organisms without consideration of function. b. The form and structure of an organism or one of its parts: the morphology of a cell; the morphology of vertebrates. 2. Linguistics The study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds. | | OTHER FORMS: | mor pho·logi·cal (-f-lj -kl) , morpho·logic —ADJECTIVE
morpho·logi·cal·ly —ADVERB
mor·pholo·gist —NOUN
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