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morphological
Variant of morphology
noun
- the branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of animals and plants
- the branch of linguistics that deals with word structure and with functional changes in the forms of words, such as inflection and compounding
- the study of the structure, classification, and relationships of morphemes
- any scientific study of form and structure, as in physical geography
- form and structure, as of an organism, regarded as a whole
Related Forms:
- morphological adjective or morphologic
- morphologically adverb
- morphologist noun
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