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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 allomorph
 同質異晶; 同質異象變體

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 al·lo·morph /ˈæləˌmɔrf/ 名詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Al·lo·morph n.  Min. (a) Any one of two or more distinct crystalline forms of the same substance; or the substance having such forms; -- as, carbonate of lime occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite. (b) A variety of pseudomorph which has undergone partial or complete change or substitution of material; -- thus limonite is frequently an allomorph after pyrite.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 allomorph
      n 1: any of several different crystalline forms of the same
           chemical compound; "calcium carbonate occurs in the
           allomorphs calcite and aragonite"
      2: 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"