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morph
  1. (grammar) A physical form representing some morpheme in language. It is a recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds.
  2. (linguistics) An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.
  3. (biology) Local variety of a species, distinguishable from other populations of the species by morphology or behaviour.
  4. A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “There's also an intriguing computer morph that shows how the maestro's face has changed over time.”
morphology
  1. (uncountable) A scientific study of form and structure, usually without regard to function. Especially:
    1. (linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
    2. (biology) The study of the form and structure of animals and plants.
    3. (geology) The study of the structure of rocks and landforms.
  2. (countable) The form and structure of something.
  3. (countable) A description of the form and structure of something.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Most of the limited Kriol morphology is associated with the verb and there are five prepositions that indicate grammatical relations.”
      “Far from being proof of children's linguistic inadequacy, analogy is a demonstration of their mastery of the core rules of English morphology.”
      “The white blood cells and platelets showed normal morphology and differential.”
morphon
  1. (biology) A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form, according to Ernst Haeckel.
  2. (linguistics) A unit of morphology.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The Bion is the physiological, as the morphon is the morphological, individual.”
      “SmarTone iN also provides a large variety of MIDP Java and Morphon games for different brands of mobile phones.”
morphospace
  1. (biology) A graphical representation of all the morphologies an organism could or does have, each point of which represents an individual shape.
morphing
  1. (computing) The smooth transformation of one image into another using digital tweening.
morpheme
  1. (morphology) The smallest linguistic unit within a word that can carry a meaning, such as "un-", "break", and "-able" in the word "unbreakable".
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Bound morphemes have to be attached to a free morpheme, and so cannot be words in their own right.”
      “As we increase the size of the corpus, the number of tokens of the morpheme will obviously increase.”
      “The model of morpheme classification assumes that there are three types of system morphemes as well as content morphemes.”
morphophoneme
  1. (linguistics) One of the units of which the underlying representations of morphemes are composed.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Stress has its own tier, and I will identify this feature specifically, since stress will determine the choice of the morphophoneme.”
      “A morphophoneme is a theoretical unit at a deeper level of abstraction than traditional phonemes, and is taken to be a unit from which morphemes are built up.”
morphophonology
  1. A branch of linguistics concerned with phonemes, and the phonological representation of morphemes
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The discipline that deals specifically with the sound changes occurring within morphemes is morphophonology.”
      “Furthermore, the generativists folded morphophonology into phonology, which both solved and created problems.”
      “Directly influenced by Baudouin de Courtenay, Trubetzkoy is considered the founder of morphophonology, although this concept had also been recognized by de Courtenay.”
morphotype
  1. (biology) Any of a group of different types of individuals of the same species in a population; a morph.
morphomics
  1. (biology) The identification of the totality of the morphological features of species
morphotaxon
  1. (taxonomy) A taxon of a group of organisms classified according to morphology alone
morphemics
  1. (linguistics) the study of morphemes, or of the morphemic structure of a language
  2. Examples:
    1. “When it deals with morphs and morphemes, morphology is known as morphemics.”
morphome
  1. The totality of morphological features of a species
morphovar
  1. (biology) A biovar that has a distinct morphology; a morphotype
morphotactics
  1. The ordering restrictions in place on the ordering of morphemes.
morphospecies
  1. (biology) A species distinguished from others only by its morphology.
morphodynamics
  1. (geology) The study of the changing morphology of geologic surfaces.
morphosemantics
  1. (linguistics) The relationship between morphology and semantics.
morphosyntax
  1. (linguistics) Morphology and syntax regarded as an interlinked unit.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Certain misunderstandings about Tangut morphosyntax which had crept into the literature on Tibeto-Burman historical grammar are dispelled.”
      “Cypriot Arabic largely shows borrowing of vocabulary, and consequently Greek morphosyntax.”
      “Helle Metslang's main research interests have been Estonian morphosyntax and syntax, language change, contrastive and typological studies.”
morphonology
morphotyping
  1. The identification of morphotypes
morphologist
  1. A person who studies morphology
  2. Examples:
    1. “As a highly skilled morphologist, he was in a position to assess the evidence.”
      “Living in France, being a morphologist, and having myself studied hypocoristics, I may give you some impressions on the matter.”
      “Geoffroy was primarily a morphologist and a seeker after the unity hidden under the diversity of organic form.”
morphemehood
  1. (linguistics) The property of being a morpheme.
morphophonemics
  1. morphophonology
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “One empirical focus of her work has been the morphophonemics and prosody of Japanese.”
      “Enforcing regularity in morphophonemics is like trying to clean sand off the beach.”
      “Tonal morphophonemics is much more confusing to the beginning analyst than consonantal morphophonemics, even when the total number of rules is no greater.”
morphophonemes
  1. plural of morphophoneme
morphologists
  1. plural of morphologist
  2. Examples:
    1. “Generations of morphologists have been unable to determine the branching order of Chelicerata, Myriapoda, Crustacea and Insecta.”
      “Evolutionary morphologists such as Haeckel and Gegenbaur argued that true homology can only exist between two parts that have developed from the same anlage.”
      “Though gemmae are of interest to morphologists, they have been used only rarely as aids in identification.”
morphosyntaxes
  1. plural of morphosyntax
morphotaxa
  1. plural of morphotaxon
morphospaces
  1. plural of morphospace
morphotypes
  1. plural of morphotype
  2. Examples:
    1. “Prey items were separated into morphotypes based on order, life stage, and in the case of Hymenoptera, apterous or winged.”
      “Specimens showing a distinct recognizable set of diagnostic features were defined as morphotypes and documented photographically.”
      “Morphologic intermediacy can be misleading when determining if hybridization has occurred between two morphotypes.”
morphologies
  1. plural of morphology
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Species identification was based on the morphologies of the rostrum and the 5th pleura.”
      “The model simulates such morphologies, nevertheless, they are completely random and nonrecurring.”
      “There are several characteristic morphologies for intramolecularly condensed polyelectrolytes.”
morphovars
  1. plural of morphovar
morphings
  1. plural of morphing
morphomes
  1. plural of morphome
morphemes
  1. plural of morpheme
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For the most part, native Japanese words and morphemes were associated with single Chinese characters, but not always.”
      “Cognitive Grammar takes the very strong position that all words and morphemes in a language are symbolic.”
      “In this approach, the specimen sentence has 13 monemes divided into 8 morphemes and 5 lexemes.”
morphons
morphs
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