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  • a  relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms
    polymorphous crystallization
  • a  relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population
  • s  having or occurring in several distinct forms
    a polymorphous god

  • The media have never been so ubiquitous or polymorphous.
  • At 36, the oldest fresh force in rock, this new Bowie seems to share few qualities with old Ziggy, the polymorphous camp extravaganza, the most gilded lily of rock's gaudiest .
  • It is the polymorphous streptococcus.
Quotes

  • Antony Hegarty in The Age
    The new kids are very polymorphous,Hegarty says. "They seem really open-minded. They're not preoccupied with difference or separateness, which I find really refreshing."

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