allometry
- n the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole
allomorph
- n any of several different crystalline forms of the same chemical compound
calcium carbonate occurs in the allomorphs calcite and aragonite - n 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