In biological terms, these are the characteristic behaviors of sexually dimorphous territorial animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

In 1841 he made the discovery that dimorphous bodies have different fusing points, according as they are in the crystallized or amorphous condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882] Reference

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?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: Spouse and spouse?] Reference

But they owe this quality entirely to their dimorphous character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Hegel, the philosopher of the present, himself dimorphous, for both a 'left'-minded and a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Damascus] Reference

Leaves and shoots dimorphous, primary leaves on long shoots, secondary leaves on dwarf shoots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genus Pinus] Reference

Here I might refer to the observations concerning the invisible dimorphous state of the flowers of the normal toad-flax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Mr. Walsh's view is that Cynips quercus aciculata is a dimorphous form of Cynips q. spongifica, and occurs only as a female.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

Granting these conclusions, monstrosities on the one side, and dimorphous wild species on the other, constitute the most striking examples of the inheritance of latent characters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Toad-flax, 267, 282, 707 cross pollination of, 471 experiment with, described, 468 invisible dimorphous state of, 470, 471, 478 latent tendency to mutation in, 479 peloric, see Peloric toad flax sterility of mutants, 477 unusual pelorism, 486.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference