polymorphous

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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

To answer this philosophical question, one must experience this polymorphous artist onstage.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2016

Rosa, putting down a set of nominal species, leaves us four; two of them polymorphous, but easy to distinguish...

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir