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Definitions of allomorph
  1. noun
    any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound
    "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite"
  2. 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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  • morphophonemics the study of the phonological realization of the allomorphs of the morphemes of a language
  • morphophoneme (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
  • allomorphic pertaining to allomorphs
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