allomorph

Noun
  1. Any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound (synset 114844026)
    "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite"
    is a type of: chemical compound, compound - (chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight
  2. A variant phonological representation of a morpheme (synset 106317596)
    "the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme"
    is a type of: morpheme - minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units
    subtypes: morphophoneme - (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme

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