| Pronunciation: | | p`âleem'orfik
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- [adj] having or occurring in several distinct forms; "man is both polymorpphic and polytypic"; "a polymorphous god"
- [adj] (biology) relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population; "a polymorphic species"
- [adj] (chemistry) relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms; "polymorphous crystalzation"
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POLYMORPHIC is a 11 letter word that starts with P. |
| | Synonyms: | | multiform, polymorphous, polymorphous |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Pol`y*mor"phic\, a.
Polymorphous.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | polymorphism |
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| Biology Dictionary |
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- Describes a substance that can take on several different shapes; specifically, it refers to a protein which can be coded by several different sequences; these variations do not ruin the protein's function.
- Having more than two distinct forms.
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