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    ALLOMORPH

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A variant phonological representation of a morphemeplay

    Example:

    the final sounds of 'bets' and 'beds' and 'horses' and 'oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("allomorph" is a kind of...):

    morpheme (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "allomorph"):

    morphophoneme ((linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compoundplay

    Example:

    calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting substances

    Hypernyms ("allomorph" is a kind of...):

    chemical compound; compound ((chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight)

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