n.
A meaningful linguistic unit consisting of a word, such as man, or a word element, such as -ed in walked, that cannot be divided into smaller meaningful parts.
[French morphème, blend of Greek morphē, form and French phonème, phoneme; see phoneme.]
morphemic mor·phem'ic adj.morphemically mor·phem'i·cal·ly adv.
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