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How To Use dimorphic In A Sentence

• Perennial shrubs often develop a dimorphic root system, where deeper roots tap a more reliable water source at depth.
• Among the common morphologic findings in dyserythropoiesis are oval macrocytes and hypochromic microcytes, creating a dimorphic population.
• The following references apply some to apetalous and others to dimorphic flowers, but it must be remembered that the latter plants are not necessarily wanting in petals or stamens, &c., though the functional activity of the parts may be impaired: Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• But man is, in general, sexually dimorphic in ways which do not resemble his ape cousins.
• Analysis of heterochronic processes associated with sexual dimorphism requires the arbitrary choice of a reference morph in the dimorphic pair.
• Red cowslip by variation has become non-dimorphic, and with this change of structure has become much more productive of seed than even the heteromorphic union of the common cowslip. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
• Bighorn sheep and other large ungulates are highly dimorphic, with males being substantially larger than females, and variation in male reproductive success is also high in these species.
• Some plants seem as a normal occurrence to produce flowers of different construction, and are hence termed dimorphic, as in many _Malpighiaceæ_, _Violaceæ_, _Oxalidaceæ_, in some of the flowers of which the petals are altogether wanting, while in others the corolla is developed as usual. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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• Then the hypothesis to be tested is whether differences among species in sexual dimorphism are related to the underlying genetic mating systems, perhaps with the most dimorphic species also being the most polyandrous.