polymorphic
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polymorphic englanniksi
Relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms.
(RQ:Darwin Origin of Species)
1897, Grant Allen, ''An African Millionaire''
- Dr. Beddersley came -- a dapper little man, with pent-house eyebrows, and keen, small eyes, whom I suspected at sight of being Colonel Clay himself in another of his clever polymorphic embodiments.
Having or relating to the ability to take multiple types for a single parameter.
(quote-book)
Relating to a compound that can crystallizes into two or more distinct forms (e.g. carbon, which can crystalize into coal, graphite, diamond, etc.)