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adj. - Occurring or existing in two different forms.

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  • In biological terms, these are the characteristic behaviors of sexually dimorphous territorial animals.
  • In 1841 he made the discovery that dimorphous bodies have different fusing points, according as they are in the crystallized or amorphous condition.
  • Our species is sexually dimorphous — the symbolism of "male" and "female" as sexually generative is rather primordially a part of the idea of marriage, don't you think?
  • But they owe this quality entirely to their dimorphous character.
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