Dimorphism

Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.

Compare dimorphism with other words:

dimorphism vs. dimorphous

crystalline vs. dimorphism

dimorphism vs. individual

dimorphism vs. part

dimorphism vs. plant

dimorphic vs. dimorphism

dimorphism vs. polymorphism