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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the variant forms of a morpheme. For example, the phonetic (s) of cats (kăts), (z) of pigs (pĭgz), and (ĭz) horses (hôr′sĭz) are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[allo– + morph(eme).]
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