Dimorphism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DIMORPHISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the state of existing or occurring in two distinct forms in the same plant or species
• 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.
• (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)
• the state or quality of having two different forms, especially when it comes to characteristic differences between the male and female of a particular species.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the condition or property of being dimorphic or dimorphous; as; the existence of two different forms (as of color or size) of a species especially in the same population; the existence of a part (as leaves of a plant) in two different forms

Words related to DIMORPHISM

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Words that contain DIMORPHISM

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How to use DIMORPHISM in a sentence

• This is the case with SEASONAL DIMORPHISM, the first known cases of which exhibited marked differences between the two generations, the winter and the summer brood.
• By seasonal dimorphism is meant the fact that species may appear at different seasons of the year in a somewhat different form or colour.

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