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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morphology \Mor*phol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. morfh` form + -logy: cf. F. morphologie.] (Biol.) 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. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants studies of the rules for forming admissible words the admissible arrangement of sounds in words [syn: sound structure , syllable structure , word structure ] the branch of geology ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially: 2 # (context linguistics English) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In linguistics , morphology is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to other words in the same language. It analyzes the structure of words and parts of words, such as stems , root words , prefixes , and suffixes . Morphology ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had a hungry face; in it Marge detected a morphology she recognized. ▪ Here, as in other areas, we see ecology emerging from a deliberate revolt against the evolutionary morphology of earlier decades. ▪ In addition to those ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1824 in biology (from German Morphologie , 1817); 1869 in philology; from morpho- + -logy . Related: Morphological ; morphologist . Related: Morphologist .
Usage examples of morphology.
Aside from two poorly dated Neanderthal skulls from Germany and Gibraltar, and a few other little-reported finds of modern morphology, there were no discoveries of hominid fossil remains.
Such methods include chemical, radiometric, and geomagnetic dating techniques, as well as analysis of site stratigraphy, faunal remains, tool types, and the morphology of the hominid remains.
In attempting to sort out this Middle Pleistocene hominid logjam, scientists have repeatedly used the morphology of the hominid fossils to select desirable dates within the total possible faunal date ranges of the sites.
Middle Pleistocene age, and the scientists working on the cave suggest a late Middle Pleistocene dating, for the morphology of the maxilla shows less primitive features than does that of Sinanthropus.
Europe is due to the perfect integration of Roman capillary habits with the general morphology of the characters he usually portrays.
But because the remains were modern in morphology they came under intense negative scrutiny.
The morphology of the Vertesszollos occipital is even more puzzling than that of the Heidelberg jaw.
As far as the surface finds are concerned, these are all cranial and dental remains, the morphology of which is primarily apelike with some humanlike features.
But keep in mind the following: this sequencing operation is performed primarily on the basis of morphology, in order to preserve an evolutionary progression.
The principal justification for fixing the date of the Maba cave in the very latest part of the late Middle Pleistocene or in the early Late Pleistocene seems to be the morphology of the hominid remains.
Further confirmation of the humanlike morphology of the Kanapoi humerus came from anthropologists Henry M.
Ive spent the entire night studying their morphology and physiology, and other than that slight difference in electrolytes I detected when we were on the planets surface, Ive found nothing to account for their deaths.
If you are somewhat familiar with humanoids, then why can you not use your superior intellect to learn their morphology and physiology?
The morphology database includes abbreviated music and mathematics tables.
The external environment in such a view is the cause, the evolved morphology, physiology, and behavior of the organism is the effect, and natural selection is the mechanism by which the autonomous external cause is translated into the effect.