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Allomorph Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -morph

Allomorph has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound

"calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite"

2

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"

3

Any of the different crystalline forms of a substance.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
compound morpheme
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
morphophoneme
Rhyming Words
rph morph scarph amorph bimorph dimorph myomorph otomorph isomorph anamorph apomorph zoomorph unimorph trimorph biomorph symmorph ecomorph neomorph polymorph ectomorph
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