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allomorph

English

  1. 🔊 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”
  2. 🔊 any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound
    “calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite”