Meaning

3 senses

  1. Any organism that shows polymorphism.

  2. Any substance or mineral that forms different types of crystal.

  3. The transformation of an item or creature into something different by magic.

More definitions
  • an organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites

Origin

From poly- + -morph.

From poly- + -morph.

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Forms

plural: polymorphs
Singularpolymorph
Pluralpolymorphs

regular

Word family

6 related words
Relatedpolymorphic
Derivedpolymorphisticpolymorphitispolymorph-perversepolyselfunpolymorph

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
polygraphpolymathpolymerpolynomialpolyphonicpolytechnic
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