Associations to the word «Allomorph»
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Wiktionary
ALLOMORPH, noun. (chemistry) Any of the different crystalline forms of a substance.
ALLOMORPH, noun. (linguistics) Any of the different phonological representations of a morpheme.
Dictionary definition
ALLOMORPH, noun. Any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound; "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite".
ALLOMORPH, noun. 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".
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.