morphology

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noun

1. the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants (Freq. 1)
• Derivationally related forms:
morphologic, morphological
• Hypernyms:
biology, biological science
• Hyponyms:
anatomy, general anatomy
2. studies of the rules for forming admissible words
• Derivationally related forms:
morphologic, morphological
• Hypernyms:
grammar
• Hyponyms:
inflectional morphology, accidence, derivational morphology, compound morphology
3. the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
• Syn:
sound structure, syllable structure, word structure
• Derivationally related forms:
morphologic
• Hypernyms:
structure
• Hyponyms:
affixation
4. the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
• Syn:
geomorphology
• Derivationally related forms:
geomorphologic (for: geomorphology), geomorphological (for: geomorphology), morphologic, morphological
• Hypernyms:
geophysics, geophysical science
• Hyponyms:
tectonics, plate tectonics, plate tectonic theory, petrology, lithology

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  geomorphology, sound structure, syllable structure, word structure