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al•lo•morph  (al′ə môrf′),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Chemistryany of two or more different forms of the same chemical compound.
  2. Linguisticsone of the alternate contextually determined phonological shapes of a morpheme, as en in oxen, which is an allomorph of the English plural morpheme. Cf. morph.
  3. Mineralogyparamorph.
  • allo- + -morph 1865–70
al′lo•mor′phic, adj. 

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