 allomorph |
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| 1. | [ noun ] (chemistry) any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound | |
| Examples: | : "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite" |
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| Related terms: | compound | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (linguistics,phonology) a variant phonological representation of a morpheme | |
| Examples: | : "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme" |
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| Related terms: | morpheme morphophoneme | |
| Similar spelling: |
allomorphic allomerous allomerism |
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