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Feb 11, 2012
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mor•pheme



Pronunciation: (môr'fēm), [key]
—n. Ling.
any of the minimal grammatical units of a language, each constituting a word or meaningful part of a word, that cannot be divided into smaller independent grammatical parts, as the, write, or the -ed of waited. Cf. allomorph (def. 2), morph (def. 1).

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