Meaning of POLYMORPHOUS
| Pronunciation: | | `pâlee'morfus
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- [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"
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| | Definition: | | \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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