Definition of "dimorphous" [di•mor•phous]

• Variant of dimorphic. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In biological terms, these are the characteristic behaviors of sexually dimorphous territorial animals."
• "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?"
• "In 1841 he made the discovery that dimorphous bodies have different fusing points, according as they are in the crystallized or amorphous condition."