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adjective
- relating to polymorphism (any sense), able to have several shapes or forms
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
- :I refer to those genera which have sometimes been called "protean" or "," in which the species present an inordinate amount of variation; and hardly two naturalists can agree which forms to rank as species and which as varieties.
- 1897, Grant Allen, An African Millionaire
- :Dr. Beddersley came -- a dapper little man, with pent-house eyebrows, and keen, small eyes, whom I suspected at sight of being Colonel Clay himself in another of his clever embodiments.
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