morphs

Noun (1)

morph (plural morphs)

1. A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.
   • Bq. ezpel ['box tree'] likely goes back to *ez-, a morph found in Basque tree names, and *-bel 'dark'.2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 482
2. An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.

Noun (2)

morph (plural morphs)

1. A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour.
   • Briefly, the yellow morphic males can change their status from paired to satellite and from satellite to the paired one. However, they cannot cross into the status of the red morph.2010, T.J. Pandian, Sexuality in Fishes, page 51

Noun (3)

morph (plural morphs)

1. A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.
   • But what is this metasubstance that blinks at us from the apex of the morph, and that in Terminator 2 is hyperbolized in the quicksilver substratum of the T-1000?2000, Vivian Carol Sobchack, Meta Morphing, page 123

Noun (4)

morph (uncountable)

1. (slang) Morphine.
   • They're bringing you some morph before long. […] The tube has its own needle, and the medic jabs it in like he has done it a million times, then marks Chickenfeed's forehead so the Rear will know he's already had morphine.2008, Donald Bodey, F.N.G., page 103

Noun (5)

morph (plural morphs)

1. A hermaphrodite, an intersex person.
   • I am seeking to correspond with a TV [transvestite] or a natural morph. I want them to be passive (I'm totally non-violent) but open in feelings and ideas. I need no financial support, only moral support from a person with small sex parts.1990 April 7, Roy Vance, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 18

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