(of flowers) having the petals, sepals, and other parts arranged in whorls of many parts
2. biology
having or being composed of many parts
polymerous in American English
(pəˈlɪmərəs)
adjective
1. Biology
composed of many parts
2. Botany
having numerous members in each whorl
Word origin
[1855–60; polymer + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1855–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boilerplate, lavabo, pipeline, specialist, superheat-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous)