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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024di•mor•phous (dī môr′fəs),USA pronunciation adj. - Botany, Zoologyhaving two forms.
Also, di•mor′phic. - Greek dímorphos. See dimorph, -ous
- 1825–35
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024di•mor•phism (dī môr′fiz əm),USA pronunciation n. - Zoologythe occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Cf. sexual dimorphism.
- Botanythe occurrence of two different forms of flowers, leaves, etc., on the same plant or on different plants of the same species.
- Crystallographythe property of some substances of crystallizing in two chemically identical but crystallographically distinct forms.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: dimorphism /daɪˈmɔːfɪzəm/ n - the occurrence within a plant of two distinct forms of any part, such as the leaves of some aquatic plants
- the occurrence in an animal or plant species of two distinct types of individual
- a property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms
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