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Dimorphism or dimorphic may refer to:

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• Science
• Mathematics
• See also

Science

• Dimorphic root systems, plant roots with two distinctive forms for two separate functions
• Polymorphism (biology), for the occurrence of only two different morphs or forms of the same species
  • Sexual dimorphism, a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species
• Nuclear dimorphism, when a cell's nuclear apparatus is composed of two structurally and functionally differentiated types of nuclei
• Frond dimorphism, differing forms of fern fronds between the sterile and fertile fronds
• Phenotypic dimorphism, switching between two cell-types
  • Dimorphic fungi, fungi which undergo this type of switching
• Dimorphism (geology), the property of some substances to exist in two distinct crystalline forms

Mathematics

• Semilinear map, a homomorphism between modules, paired with the associated homomorphism between the respective base rings

See also

• Polymorphism (disambiguation)
• Monomorphic (disambiguation)

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