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. [1913 Webster]
The form and structure of an organism. [PJC]
The branch of linguistics which studies the patterns by which words are formed from other words, including inflection, compounding, and derivation. [PJC]
The study of the patterns of inflection of words or word classes in any given language; the study of the patterns in which morphemes combine to form words, and the rules for combination; morphemics; as, the morphology of Spanish verbs; also, the inflection patterns themselves. [PJC]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

morphology, n. the study of the forms of things, esp.:
1 Biol. the study of the forms of organisms.
2 Philol. a the study of the forms of words. b the system of forms in a language.

Derivative

morphological adj. morphologically adv. morphologist n.

Etymology

Gk morphe form + -LOGY

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THESAURUS

morphology

IC analysis, accidence, affix, affixation, allomorph, anatomist, anatomy, angiography, angiology, anthropotomy, bound morpheme, bowwow theory, comparative linguistics, conjugation, cutting, declension, derivation, descriptive grammar, descriptive linguistics, dialectology, difference of form, dingdong theory, enclitic, etymology, form, formative, free form, generative grammar, geomorphology, glossematics, glossology, glottochronology, glottology, grammar, grammatical analysis, grammatical theory, grammaticality, graphemics, histologist, histology, historical linguistics, immediate constituent analysis, infix, infixation, inflection, language study, lexicology, lexicostatistics, linguistic geography, linguistic science, linguistics, mathematical linguistics, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphologist, morphophonemics, myography, myology, organography, organology, osteography, osteology, paleography, paradigm, parsing, philology, phonetics, phonology, phrase-structure grammar, prefix, prefixation, proclitic, psycholinguistics, radical, root, rules of language, school grammar, semantics, sociolinguistics, splanchnography, splanchnology, stem, stratificational grammar, structural grammar, structuralism, suffix, suffixation, syntactics, tagmemic analysis, tectology, theme, traditional grammar, transformational grammar, transformational linguistics, word-formation, zootomy

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Organization

N organization, organized world, organized nature, living nature, animated nature, living beings, organic remains, fossils, protoplasm, cytoplasm, protein, albumen, structure, organization, organism, biology, natural history, organic chemistry, anatomy, physiology, zoology, botany, microbiology, virology, bacteriology, mycology, naturalist, archegenesis, antherozoid, bioplasm, biotaxy, chromosome, dysmeromorph, ecology, oecology, erythroblast, gametangium, gamete, germinal matter, invagination, isogamy, oogamy, karyaster, macrogamete, microgamete, metabolism, anabolism, catabolism, metaplasm, ontogeny, ovary, ovum, oxidation, phylogeny, polymorphism, protozoa, spermary, spermatozoon, trophoplasm, vacuole, vertebration, zoogloea, zygote, Darwinism, neo-Darwinism, Lamarkism, neoLamarkism, Weismannism, morphology, taxonomy, organic, organized, karyoplasmic, unsegmentic, vacuolar, zoogloeic, zoogloeoid.

Zoology

N zoology, zoonomy, zoography, zootomy, anatomy, comparative anatomy, animal physiology, comparative physiology, morphology, mammalogy, anthropology, ornithology, ichthyology, herpetology, ophiology, malacology, helminthology, entomology, oryctology, paleontology, mastology, vermeology, ornithotomy, ichthyotomy, taxidermy, zoologist, zoological.

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