ALLOMORPH as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a variant phonological representation of a morpheme
   Usage Example(s)
   • the final sounds of `bets” and `beds” and `horses” and `oxen” are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme
   Hypernyms(s) allomorph is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • morpheme (what does morpheme mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • morphophoneme (what does morphophoneme mean?)
2. Meaning
   • any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound
   Usage Example(s)
   • calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite
   Hypernyms(s) allomorph is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • compound (what does compound mean?)
   • chemical compound (what does chemical compound mean?)