allomorph, n.
(allomorphs)
(allomorphs)
a variant phonological representation of a morpheme
<noun.communication>
allomorph
sample sentences
"the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme"
any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound
<noun.substance>
allomorph
sample sentences
"calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite"
semantic pointers
hypernym