Definitions for dimorphism

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dimorphism di·mor·phism

Spelling: [dahy-mawr-fiz-uh m]

IPA: /daɪˈmɔr fɪz əm/

Dimorphism is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 316 anagrams from letters in dimorphism (dhiimmoprs).

Definitions for dimorphism

noun

1. Zoology. the occurrence of two forms distinct in structure, coloration, etc., among animals of the same species. Compare sexual dimorphism.
2. Botany. the occurrence of two different forms of flowers, leaves, etc., on the same plant or on different plants of the same species.
3. Crystallography. the property of some substances of crystallizing in two chemically identical but crystallographically distinct forms.

Origin of dimorphism

First recorded in 1825-35; dimorph + -ism

Examples for dimorphism

It is only by breeding the two insects that it can be determined whether this is a case of a co-existing variety or of dimorphism.

Woman's liberty also accentuates the dimorphism but by another process.

The couple is only possible with a dimorphism, real but moderate.

Any member of the Lythraceae raised from seed ought to be well looked after for dimorphism.

Wolfgang Ostwald has produced experimentally, through variation of temperature, dimorphism of form in Daphnia.

Such behavior of a substance is known as dimorphism, and numerous illustrations of it are to be found in Nature.

Possibly the worm may afford us another curious instance of dimorphism.

Here the dimorphism is not in favour of the female, but impartial.

There are, also, cases of dimorphism and trimorphism, both with animals and plants.

This gives a narrow impression of Darwin's interest in dimorphism.