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ALLOMORPH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A variant phonological representation of a morpheme
Example:
the final sounds of 'bets' and 'beds' and 'horses' and 'oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("allomorph" is a kind of...):
morpheme (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "allomorph"):
morphophoneme ((linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound
Example:
calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("allomorph" is a kind of...):
chemical compound; compound ((chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight)
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