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Morphological is a formal, academic word that means "related to shape or structure." use it to talk about the physical shape and structure of living things — a "morphological change" in an animal is a change in its body shape. In language study, it describes how words are built from smaller pieces, like prefixes and suffixes.
型態學的；（語言學）構詞（法）的
組成Greek morphe ("shape, form") + -logical ("relating to the study of").
同家族的字
- morphologythe study that morphological relates to
- metamorphosisshares the Greek root morphe — it means a complete "change of form"
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
morphologicaladj/ˌmɔːfəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkl̩/
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Of, or pertaining to, morphology.
- In much the same way, morphological competence is reflected in the native speaker's intuitions about morphological well-formedness and structure. For example, native speakers of English know that van and can have the respective plural forms vans and cans, but that the plural of man is men and not *mans. [...]
- Before I simply create a root meaning X, is there any way I can use Ithkuil morphological categories or the 150 or so suffix categories to derive this word from a more general or primary word?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。