Definition of Allomorphic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to allomorphs.

Partainyms: Allomorph

Definition of Allomorphic

1. a. Of or pertaining to allomorphism.

Definition of Allomorphic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to allomorphism or to allomorphs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Allomorphic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Allomorphic

1. Of or pertaining to allomorphism. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Allomorphic

allokinesis
allolactose
allolalia
allolevivirus
allomaleic acid
allomeric function
allomerism
allomerous
allometric
allometries
allometron
allometry
allomone
allomones
allomorph
allomorphic (current term)
allomorphism
allomorphisms
allomorphs
allomother
allomothered
allomothering
allomothers
allomucic acid
allongement
allonges
allonomous
allons
allonym

Literary usage of Allomorphic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Liverpool Geological Association (1893)
"... and all graduate into one another, the whole series being truly allomorphic, ie, being of different forms, but of the same composition. ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1867)
"... and forms, on the contrary, an integral portion of the serpentine constituting the ' chamber-casts,' under the allomorphic form of chrysotile, ..."

3. Report by American Genetic Association (1907)
"The white of the Yorkshire, Chester White, Berkshire, and Poland China seems to be allomorphic with red in ..."

4. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead MacFarlane (1918)
"Carbon is not only allomorphic as occurring naturally in the forms of charcoal, graphite, and diamond; it is also solid at ordinary and even high ..."

5. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1921)
"From this description it follows that the caudate nucleus and the putamen belong in the group of allomorphic nuclei in the sense of Kohnstamm and the globus ..."

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