morphology

名词 morphology:

1. the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants
2. studies of the rules for forming admissible words
3. the admissible arrangement of sounds in words
   同义词：sound structure, syllable structure, word structure
4. the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms
   同义词：geomorphology

mor.phol.o.gy

n.（名词）
【复数】 mor.phol.o.gies 缩写 morph.,morphol.

The branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of organisms without consideration of function.
形态生物学：生物学一个分支，以有机体的形式和结构为研究对象，而不考虑其功能
The form and structure of an organism or one of its parts:
一有机体或其某一部分的形成和结构：
例句：
the morphology of a cell; the morphology of vertebrates.
细胞形态学；脊椎动物的形态学

Linguistics The study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds.
【语言学】 形态音位学：语言或某一语言中对于单词的结构和形式的研究，包括词尾变化、派生和合成词的构成

【引伸】
mor.pholog.ical
mor.pholog.ically
adv.（副词）
morphol.ogist
n.（名词）