morphological
/mɔːfəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l/(also morphologic)
adjective
1Relating to the form or structure of things: the purely morphological fact that with a little dam one could hold back a lot of water...
- The elegant installation, which juxtaposed sculptures and drawings, demonstrated the morphological development of Bontecou's ideas.
- It is more typical, however, to encounter a sample of artifacts exhibiting morphological characteristics along a continuum that are not easily sorted by discrete variables.
- Petridis covers in some detail Olbrechts's morphological approach to the study of art, as developed in his Congo art book.
1.1Relating to the branch of biology that deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures: studies of genetic variation of morphological traits in mammals the geraniums have a number of unusual morphological adaptations...
- The two species show only minimal morphological differentiation, suggesting very recent diversification.
- A morphological or physiological trait may appear multiple times in evolution.
- The morphological variability within the sheathed bacteria is high.
1.2 Linguistics Relating to the forms of words, in particular inflected forms: the language’s phonological, morphological and syntactic structure morphological and syntactic similarities between languages...
- In the case of morphological marking, a verbal affix (in its broadest sense) is attached to the predicate or predicate complex.
- Such a feature (phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, lexical, or other) usually contrasts with some similar feature in adjoining areas.
- Very frequently, words are given incorrect or unjustifiable morphological analyses.
Derivatives
morphologically
/ adverb ...- The genera of the fungal colonies were identified morphologically with an optical microscope.
- The word, quite simply, is morphologically unanalysable.
- Both European and Brazilian Portuguese are morphologically uniform.
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