morphology

1. 1.

   the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants

   Broaderbiology

   Narroweranatomy
2. 2.

   studies of the rules for forming admissible words

   Broadergrammar

   Narrowerinflectional morphologyderivational morphologycompound morphology
3. 3.

   the admissible arrangement of sounds in words

   Synonymssound structuresyllable structureword structure

   Broaderstructure

   Narroweraffixation
4. 4.

   the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms

   Synonymsgeomorphology

   Broadergeophysics

   Narrowertectonicspetrology

Other forms of morphology

plural

morphologies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about morphology

What does morphology mean?

morphology means "the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in morphology?

morphology has 4 syllables: mor-pho-lo-gy. The stress falls on "pho". In IPA it is /mɔɹˈfɑlədʒi/.

What is another word for morphology?

Close synonyms include sound structure, syllable structure, word structure, geomorphology. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is morphology a common word?

morphology is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with morphology?

2 words rhyme with morphology. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.