Dictionary entry

Morphology

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mor‐phol″o‐gy (?), n. [Gr. μορφή form + -logy: cf. F. morphologie.] (Biol.) That branch of biology which deals with the structure of animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.