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morphology

morphology

7 7.4
The study of the shape and structure of animals and plants
  • noun
  • /mɔrˈfɑlədʒi/
  • Specialized
: morfología
  • Only males sing and we have found no association between beak morphology and song subtype.
  • sperm morphology
  • cell morphology
  • vegetative morphology

But you know, the basic morphology is in is the same in in all these animals.

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Examples

  • We expect that the attribution of emotion by viewers will be affected by specific facial display morphology.

    Academic text (2015)
  • In summary, the evolutionary trend in cetacean molar morphology is toward a reduction of crests and basins.

    Academic text (2001)
  • But you know, the basic morphology is in is the same in in all these animals.

  • So putting the organisms together using morphology, as has been done in the past, has proven incorrect.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Nematodes, he explains, have a rather conservative morphology, so different species can look alike.

    Academic text (2008)
  • In addition, specific analysis of mitochondrial morphology and mitophagy will be discussed.

    Academic text (2017)
  • For example, older students may rely more on morphology to decode nonwords.

    Academic text (2013)
  • The cells remaining in these cultures strongly resemble astrocytes in both morphology and behavior in culture.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Specific dental morphologies can be used to determine phylogeny, and they correlate well with diet.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Scientists use morphology to analyze the physical structures of plants and animals in their research.

Compounds

1 9.3

The way word endings change to show tense, number, or case

compound morphology
  • Specialized
7.1

The study of how two words join to make new words like toothbrush

8.7

Making new words by adding prefixes or suffixes to other words

rule of morphology
  • Specialized
7.4

A way that shows how words are made and changed in a language

How Functional

functional anatomy
  • Specialized
1 5.0
physiological anatomy
  • Specialized
6.5
anatomy
  • Specialized
94 3.8
morphology
  • Specialized
7 7.4

Surface Forms

morphology singular
morphologies plural

Morphology

morphology = morph (semi-transparent) = morph + ology

The structure clearly combines morph plus -ology, but the biological term is a specialized scientific label rather than an everyday compositional meaning.

Etymology

Morphology comes from the Greek parts morph 'shape' and -logy 'study'. In biology, morphology is the study of the shape and structure of animals and plants, and you can remember it from the same morph in metamorphosis, a change of shape.