Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
polymorphism .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The assumption of several structural forms without a corresponding difference in function; -- said of sponges, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology The
assumption of several structuralforms without a corresponding difference infunction ; -- said of sponges, etc.
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Examples
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And in endless instances beside we see the same Panlike latency of forms and powers, which gives to the external world a capacity of self-transformation, and of _polymorphosis_ absolutely inexhaustible.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various
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And in endless instances beside we see the same Panlike latency of forms and powers, which gives to the external world a capacity of self-transformation, and of _polymorphosis_ absolutely inexhaustible.
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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