"alloform" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "allo- + form",
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      "form": "alloforms",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1980, V Larraga with F Mollinedo and E Muńoz, “Immunological behavior of two alloforms of ATPase from Micrococcus lysodeikticus”, in Current Microbiology",
          "text": "These alloforms show a similar amino acid composition but differ in the associated carbohydrate components.",
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        "A distinct form of something treated as a single kind or species."
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  "word": "alloform"
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  "etymology_text": "allo- + form",
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  "word": "alloform"
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