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Deviating from the usual form or exhibiting diversity of form.

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Usage examples (11)
  • We discussed an insect's heteromorphic stages during biology.
  • It's very heteromorphic, meaning it's deviated from the norm - that norm being freedom to choose and freedom of speech in America.
  • Huge heteromorphic creatures cleaved themselves from the walls and lunged at one another.
  • The occurrence of heteromorphic unions renders it necessary to keep in mind that plants hermaphrodite as to structure are by no means necessarily so as to function.
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