polymorphous

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Databases must be expanded to include the effects of polymorphous structures, defects, magnetism and doping on the basic symmetries of compounds.

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

Hence the polymorphous genera, concerning the systematic subdivisions of which hardly two authors agree.

From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de