polymorphous
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On her canvases, polymorphous, shape-shifting figures collide and intertwine; heads multiply; limbs get entangled with each other.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Examples of polymorphous networks whose symmetries need greater understanding include cubic halide perovskites, paramagnets and paraelectric oxides.
From Nature ● Feb. 26, 2019
Yet, gazing into the eyes of the self-possessed queen Emerald, Cooper’s Maine clearly accepts the polymorphous, femme-driven future the drag bar represents; it’s one of the movie’s sharpest intertextual moments.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2018
Ten to twenty per cent of the population in Europe and North America suffers at one time or another from polymorphous light eruption, in which exposure to ultraviolet light causes a burning or itching rash.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2016
Pol′ymorph, an organism showing polymorphism: a substance that crystallises in two or more systems; Polymor′phism, the property of being polymorphous.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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