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dimorphism

Length / number of characters: 10
Number of words: 1

  • (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms
  • (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences)
  • 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
  • Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite

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