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Polymorphism n.

(Crystallog.) Same as Pleomorphism.

(Biol.)

(a)

The capability of assuming different forms; the capability of widely varying in form.

(b)

Existence in many forms; the coexistence, in the same locality, of two or more distinct forms independent of sex, not connected by intermediate gradations, but produced from common parents.

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Etymology of 'Polymorphism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... day. I wonder whether we shall ever be public combatants; anyhow, I congratulate myself in a most unfair advantage of you, viz., in having extracted more facts and views from you than from any one other person. I daresay your explanation of polymorphism on volcanic islands may be the right one; the reason I am curious about it is, the fact of the birds on the Galapagos being in several instances very fine-run species—that is, in comparing them, not so much one with another, as with their ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin

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