allomorph
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(noun) a variant phonological representation of a morpheme: "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme" |
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Related Words: morpheme, morphophoneme |
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(noun) any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound: "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite" |
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Related Words: chemical compound, compound |
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