allomorphs

'allomorphs'

[allomorph.n.01] as in: any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound

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Examples:
calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite

'allomorphs'

[allomorph.n.02] as in: a variant phonological representation of a morpheme

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Examples:
the final sounds of `bets' and `beds' and `horses' and `oxen' are allomorphs of the English plural morpheme