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Noun: morphophoneme  ,mor-fu'fow,neem
  1. (linguistics) the phonemes (or strings of phonemes) that constitute the various allomorphs of a morpheme
    "The morphophoneme /s/ in 'cats' and /z/ in 'dogs' represent the plural morpheme"

Derived forms: morphophonemes

Type of: allomorph

Encyclopedia: Morphophoneme