Associations to the word «Dimorphism»

Wiktionary

DIMORPHISM, noun. (biology) The occurrence within a plant of two distinct forms of any part.
DIMORPHISM, noun. (biology) The occurrence in an animal species of two distinct types of individual.
DIMORPHISM, noun. (geology) A property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms.

Dictionary definition

DIMORPHISM, noun. (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms.
DIMORPHISM, noun. (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences).

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King