Hypertext Webster Gateway: "morphology"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Morphology \Mor*phol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. ? form + -logy: cf. F.
morphologie.] (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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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: {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:
{geomorphology}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.