Adjective: polymorphic ,pó-lee'mor-fik
- Having or occurring in several distinct forms
"man is both polymorphic and polytypic";
- polymorphous
- (biology) relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population
"a polymorphic species";
- polymorphous
- (chemistry) relating to the crystallization of a compound in two or more different forms
"polymorphic crystallization";
- polymorphous
See also: multiform
Encyclopedia: Polymorphic