dimorphism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The occurrence within a plant of two distinct forms of any part.
The occurrence in an animal 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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dimorphism dimorphisms

From di- + -morphism.

dimorphic dimorphous monomorphism polymorphism biform

isodimorphism sexodimorphism sexual dimorphism

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