allomorph
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound
calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite
Types & categories
- chemical compound hypernym
Sense 2 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
Types & categories
- morpheme hypernym
- morphophoneme hyponym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | chemical compound |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | morpheme |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | morphophoneme |