Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
protean , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Changeable in form; resembling a Proteus, or an amœba.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology
changeable in form; resembling aproteus
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Examples
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The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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In the poetry of Horace, therefore, wine appears as a proteiform god, which penetrates not only the tissues of the body but also the inmost recesses of the mind and aids it in its every contingency, sad or gay.
Characters and events of Roman History Guglielmo Ferrero 1906
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