polymorphous

How to use polymorphous in a sentence

• The nucleus is not polymorphous, but usually divided into two, though it may be single.

  The Elements of Bacteriological Technique | John William Henry Eyre

• The polymorphonuclear leucocytes have only a few very minute coccal-shaped oxyphile granules, the nucleus is polymorphous.

  The Elements of Bacteriological Technique | John William Henry Eyre

• polymorphous, pol-i-mor′fus, adj. having many forms: varying in appearance: taking on many changes—also Polymor′phic.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various

• The physical conditions under which polymorphous modifications are prepared control the form which the substance assumes.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 | Various

• (a) The centrifugal fibres consist as above described of the fibre processes of the pyramidal and polymorphous cells.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 | Various