About The Word Polymorphous
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Polymorphous
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What's The Definition Of Polymorphous?
[adj] having or occurring in several distinct forms; "man is both polymorpphic and polytypic"; "a polymorphous god"
[adj] (biology) relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population; "a polymorphic species" [adj] (chemistry) relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms; "polymorphous crystalzation" Synonyms | Synonyms for Polymorphous: multiform | polymorphic | polymorphic Related Terms | Find terms related to Polymorphous: See Also | Polymorphous In Webster's Dictionary \Pol`y*mor"phous\, a.
1. Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or
styles; as, a polymorphous author. --De Quincey.
2. (Biol.) Having, or occurring in, several distinct forms;
-- opposed to monomorphic.
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