define morphology in microbiology
morphology. n. 1. (Biology) the branch of biology concerned with the form and structure of organisms. 2. (Linguistics) the form and structure of words in a language, esp the consistent patterns of inflection, combination, derivation and change, etc, that may be observed and classified. 3. the form and structure of anything.
Morphology is a field of linguistics focused on the study of the forms and formation of words in a language.he rules of morphology within a language tend to be relatively regular, so that if one sees the noun morphemes for the first time, for example, one can deduce that it is likely related to the word morpheme.