English noun: morphology |
1. | morphology (cognition) the branch of biology that deals with the structure of animals and plants |
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| Broader (hypernym) | biological science, biology |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | anatomy, general anatomy |
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2. | morphology (cognition) studies of the rules for forming admissible words |
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| Broader (hypernym) | grammar |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | accidence, compound morphology, derivational morphology, inflectional morphology |
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3. | morphology (cognition) the admissible arrangement of sounds in words |
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| Synonyms | sound structure, syllable structure, word structure |
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| Broader (hypernym) | structure |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | affixation |
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4. | morphology (cognition) the branch of geology that studies the characteristics and configuration and evolution of rocks and land forms |
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| Synonyms | geomorphology |
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| Broader (hypernym) | geophysical science, geophysics |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | lithology, petrology, plate tectonic theory, plate tectonics, tectonics |
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