Толковый словарь английского языка - morphology

noun Etymology: German Morphologie, from morph+ -logie -logy Date: 1830 1. a branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of animals and plants, the form and structure of an organism or any of its parts, 2. a study and description of word formation (as inflection, derivation, and compounding) in language, the system of word-forming elements and processes in a language, 3. a study of structure or form, structure, form, the external structure of rocks in relation to the development of erosional forms or topographic features, morphological also morphologic adjective morphologically adverb morphologist noun