n.
Pronunciation: ' mo ̇ rf
Function: noun
Etymology: back-formation from morpheme
Date: 1947
1 a : ALLOMORPH b : a distinctive collocation of phones (as a portmanteau form) that serves as the realization of more than one morpheme in a context (as the French du for the sequence of de and le )
2 a : a local population of a species that consists of interbreeding organisms and is distinguishable from other populations by morphology or behavior though capable of interbreeding with them b : a phenotypic variant of a species