Morphology
English Meaning
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.
- The branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of organisms without consideration of function.
- The form and structure of an organism or one of its parts: the morphology of a cell; the morphology of vertebrates.
- Linguistics The study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds.