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Polymorphic

adjective

Relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms. Synonym: polymorphous.

Relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population. Synonym: polymorphous.

Having or occurring in several distinct forms. Synonym: polymorphous. "A polymorphous god"

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... that they cannot be of much importance; for if important, they would long ago have been either fixed and preserved, or eliminated. In this respect man resembles those forms, called by naturalists protean or polymorphic, which have remained extremely variable, owing, as it seems, to such variations being of an indifferent nature, and to their having thus escaped the ...

— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

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