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Dimorphism n.

(Biol.) Difference of form between members of the same species, as when a plant has two kinds of flowers, both hermaphrodite (as in the partridge berry), or when there are two forms of one or both sexes of the same species of butterfly. "Dimorphism is the condition of the appearance of the same species under two dissimilar forms."

(Crystallog.) Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... world, though. The specialists were beginning to know about Dredge. His remarkable paper on Sexual Dimorphism had been translated into several languages, and a furious polemic had broken out over it. When a young fellow can get the big men fighting over him his future is pretty well assured. But Dredge was only thirty-four, ...

— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton

... only refer very shortly to the botanical interest of the Primula, and that only to direct attention to Mr. Darwin's paper in the "Journal of the Linnaean Society," 1862, in which he records his very curious and painstaking inquiries into the dimorphism of the Primula, a peculiarity in the Primula that gardeners had long recognized in their arrangement of Primroses as "pin-eyed" and "thrum-eyed." It is perhaps owing to this dimorphism that the family is able to show a very large number of natural hybrids. These ...

— The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare • Henry Nicholson Ellacombe

Words linked to "Dimorphism" : polymorphism, chemistry, pleomorphism, biological science, biology, chemical science