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morphology

morphology

3 7.4
The study of the shape and structure of animals and plants
  • noun
  • /mɔrˈfɑlədʒi/
  • Specialized
translation icon : 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

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

9.3

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

rule of morphology
  • Specialized
7.4

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

How Functional

functional anatomy
  • Specialized
5.0
physiological anatomy
  • Specialized
6.5
anatomy
  • Specialized
96 3.8
morphology
  • Specialized
3 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.