allomorph
al·lo·morph
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”
- “and”
- “and”
- “and”
- “are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme”
Origin
From allo- + -morph.
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