morph

Meanings

1. A recurrent distinctive sound or sequence of sounds representing an indivisible morphological form; especially as representing a morpheme.
2. An allomorph: one of a set of realizations that a morpheme can have in different contexts.

1. A variety of a species, distinguishable from other individuals of the species by morphology or behaviour.

1. To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
2. To shapeshift.
3. To undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion.

1. A computer-generated gradual change from one image to another.

1. Morphine.

1. A hermaphrodite, an intersex person.

Etymology

Back-formation from morpheme, from Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”). Compare German Morph, from Morphem. Attested since the 1940s.