morphological adj 1: relating to or concerned with the formation of admissible words in a language [syn: {morphologic}, {morphological}] 2: pertaining to geological structure; "geomorphological features of the Black Hills"; "morphological features of granite"; "structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface" [syn: {geomorphologic}, {geomorphological}, {morphologic}, {morphological}, {structural}] 3: relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals; "morphological differences" [syn: {morphologic}, {morphological}, {structural}]
Morphologic \Mor`pho*log"ic\, Morphological \Mor`pho*log"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. morphologique.] (Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or according to, the principles of morphology. -- {Mor`pho*log"ic*al*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
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