what does polymorphous mean?
POLYMORPHOUS as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- having or occurring in several distinct forms
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- man is both polymorpphic and polytypic
- a polymorphous god
Similar To
- Meaning
- relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population
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Pertainym(s)
- Meaning
- relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms
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- polymorphous crystallization
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