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Formenlehre — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • morphology noun The study of the form and structure of living things, or the form and structure themselves.

Senses

Formenlehre is used for these senses in English:

  • morphology (uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
  • morphology (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
  • morphology (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.

morphology — full definition

  1. noun The study of the form and structure of living things, or the form and structure themselves.
  2. noun The branch of linguistics dealing with how words are built out of smaller meaningful units such as roots, prefixes and suffixes.
  3. noun The overall shape and arrangement of something, such as a landscape, a city or a material.

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