Meaning & use
morphological
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Relating to the form, structure, or shape of something, especially in biology or linguistics.
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Scientists noted morphological differences between the two beetle species.
In linguistics, morphological analysis looks at how words are built from smaller units of meaning.
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Appears frequently in both biology (the shape of organisms) and linguistics (the structure of words), so the exact meaning depends on the field.
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