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- Dimorphism - 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.
- Dimorphism - n. - Crystallization in two independent forms of the same chemical compound, as of calcium carbonate as calcite and aragonite.
- Pleomorphism - n. - The property of crystallizing under two or more distinct fundamental forms, including dimorphism and trimorphism.