morphology

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Then you typically move up to the next module, which is what linguists called morphology, which is word building.

From Salon

Researchers have identified three main smile subtypes, each with its own morphology and social functions: reward smiles, affiliation smiles and dominance smiles.

From New York Times

“The landing looks quite brutal,” says Lara Ferry, an integrative biologist who studies animal morphology at Arizona State University, West Campus.

From Science Magazine

What the pairings are really, and effectively, based on is morphology, shape, form, visual motif — this-is-like-that — which immediately pulls the eye into play.

From New York Times

“Their entire morphology is built to enable striking hard objects. So another bird is really not an issue for them.”

From Seattle Times