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Definition: Morphological |
MorphologicalAdjective1. (geology) 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". 2. Relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals; "morphological differences". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "morphological" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1859. (references) |
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Medicine | Relating to the configuration or the structure of live organs. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: MorphologicalSynonyms: geomorphologic (adj), geomorphological (adj), morphologic (adj), structural (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Morphological |
| English words defined with "morphological": Bion ♦ derivational ♦ form genus, formative ♦ gynandromorphic, gynandromorphous ♦ Homocategoric, Homodemic ♦ Idorgan ♦ morphologically, Morphon, Morphotic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "morphological": Blastocystis hominis ♦ cdc42 GTP-Binding Protein, Yeast, Cell Transformation, Neoplastic ♦ Gram-Positive Asporogenous Rods ♦ Melanocytes ♦ Neuropil Threads ♦ phenology ♦ Synechococcus Group, Synechocystis Group ♦ toxicity symptoms. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | With slight magnification, the main body divisions and gross morphological characteristics of mosquito larvae can be observed. In this manner, scientists can quickly identify larvae in the field, rather than returning to the laboratory. Credit: CDC. |
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Economic History | Lithuania | Lithuanian still retains the original sound system and morphological peculiarities of the prototypal Indo-European tongue and therefore is fascinating for linguistical study. (references) |
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| "Morphological" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Morphological" is used about 291 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 291 | 17,055 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "morphological": morphological unit. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "morphological": structural-morphological. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
morphological watershed | 4 |
morphological | 4 |
algorithm morphological | 4 |
2001 diversity morphological white | 3 |
morphological study | 2 |
dryopithecus morphological | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "morphological"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 形态 (back-formation, formation, morphologic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | morfologisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | morfologisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | muoto-opillinen, morfologinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | morphologique (morphologic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | morphologisch (morphologic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μορφολογικόσ, μορφολογικό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | morfologico (morphologic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 형태학상. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orphologicalmay morfológico (morphologic). (various references) morfologic (morphologically). (various references) морфологический (morphologic). (various references) morfológica. (various references) morfologisk (morphologic). (various references) morfolojik. (various references) морфологічний (morphologic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "morphological": morphologically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "morphological": geomorphological, micromorphological. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "morphological" (pronounced mô'rfulÄ"jikul) |
| 8 | -u l Ä" j i k u l | archaeological, archeological, astrological, biological, biotechnological, chronological, dermatological, ecological, epidemiological, eschatological, geological, gynecological, ideological, immunological, methodological, mythological, neurological, ontological, pathological, pharmacological, phonological, physiological, psychological, radiological, sociological, technological, theological, toxicological, virological. |
| 7 | -l Ä" j i k u l | illogical, logical, zoological. |
| 6 | -Ä" j i k u l | pedagogical. |
| 5 | -j i k u l | liturgical, magical, metallurgical, nonsurgical, ornithological, serological, strategical, surgical, teleological. |
| 4 | -i k u l | acoustical, alphabetical, analytical, antithetical, apolitical, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, bicycle, biographical, biomedical, botanical, categorical, cervical, classical, comical, conical, critical, cubicle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, diabolical, dialectical, ecclesiastical, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encyclical, ethical, ethnical, evangelical, fanatical, galenical, geographical, geometrical, geopolitical, graphical, helical, heretical, historical, hypercritical, hypocritical, hysterical, icicle, identical, inimical, ironical, lackadaisical, lexical, logistical, lyrical, mathematical, mechanical, metaphorical, metaphysical, metrical, musical, mystical, neoclassical, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nontechnical, optical, paradoxical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, philosophical, physical, popsicle, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, puritanical, rabbinical, rhetorical, sabbatical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, spherical, statistical, stereotypical, symmetrical, tactical, technical, testicle, theatrical, theoretical, topical, tricycle, tropical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncritical, uneconomical, unethical, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, whimsical. |
| 3 | -k u l | aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, article, barnacle, biblical, bifocal, biochemical, brickle, buckle, cackle, chemical, Chronicle, chuckle, circle, clavicle, clerical, clinical, commonsensical, coracle, cortical, crackle, cuticle, cycle, debacle, diacritical, domical, ducal, encircle, epochal, equivocal, etymological, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, geophysical, gonococcal, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, hackle, heckle, heterocercal, hierarchical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypothetical, impractical, jackal, knuckle, local, maniacal, matriarchal, medical, meikle, meteorological, methodical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, motorcycle, muckle, mythical, nautical, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, numerical, obstacle, Oracle, oratorical, particle, patriarchal, photochemical, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, practical, pumpernickel, quizzical, radical, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, ruckle, runkle, satirical, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, sprinkle, stickle, suckle, tabernacle, tackle, tentacle, tickle, tinkle, trickle, twinkle, typical, uncle, unequivocal, unicycle, unshackle, vocal, Winkle, wrinkle. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-l-l-m-o-o-o-p-r" | |
-2 letters: allomorphic, homological, horological, morphologic, pomological. | |
-4 letters: allomorph, homopolar, lagomorph. | |
-5 letters: hologram, logomach, oligarch, orphical, picloram, picogram, proclaim. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-h-i-l-l-m-o-o-o-p-r" | |
+2 letters: morphologically. | |
+3 letters: geomorphological. | |
+5 letters: micromorphological. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 72 70 68 6F 6C 6F 67 69 63 61 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-. .--. .... --- .-.. --- --. .. -.-. .- .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110010 01110000 01101000 01101111 01101100 01101111 01100111 01101001 01100011 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o r p h o l o g i c a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0072 0070 0068 006F 006C 006F 0067 0069 0063 0061 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818482748178817375696778 |
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