Definition of "polymorphous" [pol•y•mor•phous]

• Having, or assuming, a variety of forms, characters, or styles; as, a polymorphous author. (adjective)
• Having, or occurring in, several distinct forms; -- opposed to monomorphic. (adjective)
• Crystallizing in two or more different forms; polymorphic (adjective)

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• "In Eros and Civilization and One Dimensional Man he promised that the overcoming of capitalism and its false consciousness will result in a society where the greatest satisfactions are sexual, of a sort that the bourgeois moralist Freud called polymorphous and infantile."
• "In A Home at the End of the World 1990 he followed three very different misfits from childhood to maturity, from Cleveland to New York City and then to the broken-down upstate farmhouse where they define themselves, perilously and poignantly, as a kind of polymorphous family."
• "At least half of those genes are polymorphous, meaning that "they have a great potential of variation among themselves," Mr MacLeod says."