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Definition of Dimorphous
1. Adjective. Occurring or existing in two different forms. "Dimorphous organisms"
Definition of Dimorphous
1. a. Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.
Definition of Dimorphous
1. Adjective. Dimorphic; occurring or existing in two different forms. ¹
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Definition of Dimorphous
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Literary usage of Dimorphous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly (1894)
"... dioecious by aborting the stamens on some plants and the pistils on others;
or it might become dimorphous by developing perfect sexual organs ae Fio. 2. ..."
2. The Florist and Pomologist: A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits by Robert Hogg (1883)
"... are called dimorphous ; and hence the O. ... in producing dimorphous fronds.
The same form is met with in the Himalayas, ..."
3. Mineralogy: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Minerals by Henry Alexander Miers (1902)
"Mixtures of dimorphous Substances.—It sometimes happens that a well-defined
mineral is obviously, so far as its composition is concerned, to be regarded as ..."
4. A Flora of Western Middle California by Willis Linn; Jepson (1901)
"alternate 5 with shorter and versatile ones. Pod somewhat flattened, monadelphous,
dimorphous, 5 with longer and ..."
5. Handbook of the Ferns of British India, Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula by Richard Henry Beddome (1883)
"... between the midrib and the margin. each including simple or forked free
veinlets, with clavate apices; fronds articulate with the caudex, dimorphous, ..."
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