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Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author.

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  1. a. Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author.
  2. a. Having, or occurring in, several distinct forms; -- opposed to monomorphic.
  3. adj. relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms
  4. adj. relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population
  5. adj. having or occurring in several distinct forms
  6. 1. Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. De Quincey. 2. (Biol.) Having, or occurring in, several distinct forms; -- opposed to monomorphic.
  7. Having, or occurring in, several distinct forms; -- opposed tomonomorphic.
  8. j:100 a. relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms