polymorphous

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Viewed today, the show’s quirky communitarianism — its idea of America as a polymorphous, all-welcoming dance party — feels like both celebration and requiem for the irreplaceable delight dancing together on a stage.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2020

To intensify the sense of dissolving boundaries, Quarles has painted her polymorphous people using different techniques.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2019

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

Instead of figuring a fan of mutants for each year, we must condense all the succeeding swarms into one single fan, as might be done also for Draba verna and other polymorphous species.

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