bound morpheme

English Thesaurus

1. a morpheme that occurs only as part of a larger construction; eg an -s at the end of plural nouns (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	morpheme,
definition	:	minimal meaningful language unit; it cannot be divided into smaller meaningful units (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	combining form,
definition	:	a bound form used only in compounds (noun.communication)

hyponym	:	affix,
definition	:	a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form (noun.communication)