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morphology
From 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]
