Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In grammar, a word or the stem of a word exhibiting metaplasm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Gram.) A word having more than one form of the root.
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- noun grammar A
word having more than oneform of theroot .
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See metaplasm.
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A word having more than one form of the root.
September 26, 2008