morphology
nounThe branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of organisms without consideration of function.
nounThe form and structure of an organism or one of its parts.
nounThe study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds.
nounThe science of organic form; the science of the outer form and internal structure (without regard to the functions) of animals and plants; that department of knowledge which treats both of the ideal types or plans of structure, and of their actual development or expression in living organisms. It has the same scope and application in organic nature that crystallology has in the inorganic.
nounThe science of structure, or of forms, in language.
nounIn physical geography, the study of the form of lands.
nounStructural psychology (which see).
nounThat 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
The form and structure of an organism.
