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heteromorphemic

heteromorphemic adjective: not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.

Adjective

heteromorphemic (not comparable)

  1. Not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.
    • To be sure all these examples of sequences are all heteromorphemic.1964, Ural-Altaic yearbook, volume 36, page 33
    • The geminate ss is heteromorphemic, i.e. it is a single bundle of distinctive features linked to two heteromorphemic skeletal slots.2012, F. Dell, Syllables In Tashlhiyt Berber And In Moroccan Arabic, page 234
    Antonyms:
    tautomorphemic

Antonyms of heteromorphemic

Origin of heteromorphemic

From hetero- + morphemic.

Words that rhyme with heteromorphemic

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Questions about heteromorphemic

What does heteromorphemic mean?
Heteromorphemic means not occurring in the same morpheme; separated by a morpheme boundary.
What part of speech is heteromorphemic?
Heteromorphemic is an adjective.

Words near heteromorphemic in the dictionary

  1. heteromonolayers
  2. heteromonomer
  3. heteromonomeric
  4. heteromonomers
  5. heteromorph
  6. heteromorphemic
  7. heteromorphic
  8. heteromorphies
  9. heteromorphism
  10. heteromorphisms
  11. heteromorphite

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