allomorph

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noun

1. any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound
- calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite
• Hypernyms:
compound, chemical compound
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
• Hypernyms:
morpheme
• Hyponyms:
morphophoneme