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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Biology An organism characterized by polymorphism.
  2. n. Chemistry A specific crystalline form of compound that can crystallize in different forms.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. In chem., a substance which crystallizes in two or more forms distinct from each other. See dimorphism and trimorphism.
  2. n. In biology, an organism exhibiting or characterized by polymorphism; an individual member of a species or other group which differs from other members of the same group to an unusual degree.

Wiktionary

  1. n. biology Any organism that shows polymorphism
  2. n. chemistry, geology Any substance or mineral that forms different types of crystal

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Crystallog.) A substance capable of crystallizing in several distinct forms; also, any one of these forms. Cf. allomorph.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites

Etymologies

  1. poly- + -morph (Wiktionary)

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