[ちけいがく, chikeigaku] (n) topography; geomorphology[Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Morphology \Mor*phol"o*gy\, n. [Gr. morfh` form + -logy: cf. F.
morphologie.]
1. (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. See {Tectology}, and {Promorphology}.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Biol.) The form and structure of an organism.
[PJC]
3. (Linguistics) The branch of linguistics which studies the
patterns by which words are formed from other words,
including inflection, compounding, and derivation.
[PJC]
4. Specifically: 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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
morphology
n 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 [syn:
{morphology}, {sound structure}, {syllable structure}, {word
structure}]
4: the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and
configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms [syn:
{morphology}, {geomorphology}]
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