Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun allomorph

2 senses of allomorph

Sense 1
allomorph -- (any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound; "calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite")
       => compound, chemical compound -- ((chemistry) a substance formed by chemical union of two or more elements or ingredients in definite proportion by weight)

Sense 2
allomorph -- (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")
       => morpheme -- (minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units)