morphology

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
noun studies of the rules for forming admissible words
noun the admissible arrangement of sounds in words

Borrowed from German Morphologie. By surface analysis, morpho- + -logy.

355, quoting from his General Morphology. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
The size of the pseudofeet had decreased, and the whole morphology seemed coarsened and simplified. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
Descriptions of the commercial and industrial mechanism of banks and exchanges, the classification of the forms of industry and the study of its transformations are related to political economy much as zoology, descriptive botany, and morphology are related to the science of natural history. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide

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