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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (4)

1. the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants;

2. studies of the rules for forming admissible words;

3. the admissible arrangement of sounds in words;
[syn: morphology, sound structure, syllable structure, word structure]

4. the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms;
[syn: morphology, geomorphology]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Morphology \Mor*phol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. morfh` form + -logy: cf. F. morphologie.] 1. (Biol.) 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. [1913 Webster] 2. (Biol.) The form and structure of an organism. [PJC] 3. (Linguistics) The branch of linguistics which studies the patterns by which words are formed from other words, including inflection, compounding, and derivation. [PJC] 4. Specifically: The study of the patterns of inflection of words or word classes in any given language; the study of the patterns in which morphemes combine to form words, and the rules for combination; morphemics; as, the morphology of Spanish verbs; also, the inflection patterns themselves. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

morphology n 1: the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants 2: studies of the rules for forming admissible words 3: the admissible arrangement of sounds in words [syn: morphology, sound structure, syllable structure, word structure] 4: the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms [syn: morphology, geomorphology]