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al·lo·morph 
[al-uh-mawrf] Pronunciation Key
[al-uh-mawrf] Pronunciation Key –noun
| 1. | any of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound. |
| 2. | Linguistics. one of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme, as en in oxen, which is an allomorph of the English plural morpheme. Compare morph. |
| 3. | Mineralogy. paramorph. |
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| al·lo·morph 1
(āl'ə-môrf') Pronunciation Key
n. See paramorph. al'lo·mor'phic adj., al'lo·mor'phism n. |
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| al·lo·morph 2
(āl'ə-môrf') Pronunciation Key
n. Any of the variant forms of a morpheme. For example, the phonetic (s) of cats (kāts), (z) of pigs (pĭgz), and (ĭz) horses (hôr'sĭz) are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme. [allo- + morph(eme).] al'lo·mor'phic adj., al'lo·mor'phism n. |
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| par·a·morph
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n. A mineral crystal formed or affected by paramorphism. Also called allomorph1. |
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| allomorph | |
noun | |
| 1. | any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound; "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite" |
| 2. | 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" |
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Allomorph
Al"lo*morph\, n. [Gr. ? other + ? form.] (Min.) (a) Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite. (b) A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite. --G. H. Williams.
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