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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD TRIMORPHISM

From Greek trimorphos (from tri- + morphē form) + -ism.
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PRONUNCIATION OF TRIMORPHISM

trimorphism  [traɪˈmɔːfɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TRIMORPHISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Trimorphism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TRIMORPHISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Trimorphism

In biology, trimorphism is the existence in certain plants and animals of three distinct forms, especially in connection with the reproductive organs. In trimorphic plants there are three forms, differing in the lengths of their pistils and stamens, in size and color of their pollen grains, and in some other respects; and, as in each of the three forms there are two sets of stamens, the three forms possess altogether six sets of stamens and three kinds of pistils. These organs are so proportioned in length to each other that half the stamens in two of the forms stand on a level with the stigma of the third form. To obtain full fertility with these plants, it is necessary that the stigma of the one should be fertilized by pollen taken from the stamens of corresponding height in another form. Hence six unions are legitimate, that is, fully fertile, and 12 are illegitimate, or more or less unfertile. Wallace has shown that the females of certain butterflies from the Malay Archipelago appear in three conspicuously distinct forms without intermediate links.

Definition of trimorphism in the English dictionary

The definition of trimorphism in the dictionary is the property exhibited by certain species of having or occurring in three different forms. Other definition of trimorphism is the property of certain minerals of existing in three crystalline forms.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TRIMORPHISM


amorphism
əˈmɔːfɪzəm
anthropomorphism
ˌænθrəpəˈmɔːfɪzəm
automorphism
ˌɔːtəʊˈmɔːfɪzəm
dimorphism
daɪˈmɔːfɪzəm
dwarfism
ˈdwɔːfɪzəm
hemimorphism
ˌhɛmɪˈmɔːfɪzəm
heteromorphism
ˌhɛtərəʊˈmɔːfɪzəm
homeomorphism
ˌhəʊmɪəˈmɔːfɪzəm
homoeomorphism
ˌhəʊmɪəˈmɔːfɪzəm
homomorphism
ˌhəʊməʊˈmɔːfɪzəm
hylomorphism
ˌhaɪləˈmɔːfɪzəm
isodimorphism
ˌaɪsəʊdaɪˈmɔːfɪzəm
isomorphism
ˌaɪsəʊˈmɔːfɪzəm
mechanomorphism
ˌmekənəʊˈmɔːfɪzəm
metamorphism
ˌmɛtəˈmɔːfɪzəm
monomorphism
mɒnəʊˈmɔːfɪzəm
Orphism
ˈɔːfɪzəm
perimorphism
ˌpɛrɪˈmɔːfɪzəm
polymorphism
ˌpɒlɪˈmɔːfɪzəm
skeuomorphism
ˌskjuːəˈmɔːfɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TRIMORPHISM

trimetric projection
trimetrical
trimetrogon
trimly
trimmed
trimmer
trimmer joist
trimmest
trimming
trimming capacitor
trimmingly
trimmings
trimness
trimolecular
trimonthly
trimorph
trimorphic
trimorphous
trimotor
trimphone

WORDS THAT END LIKE TRIMORPHISM

allomorphism
anamorphism
Buddhism
catastrophism
diastrophism
enantiomorphism
endomorphism
Guelphism
gynandromorphism
idiomorphism
mesomorphism
paramorphism
pleomorphism
psephism
pseudomorphism
rheomorphism
sapphism
sexual dimorphism
sophism
theriomorphism
zygomorphism

Synonyms and antonyms of trimorphism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «trimorphism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TRIMORPHISM

Find out the translation of trimorphism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of trimorphism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «trimorphism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

trimorphism
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trimorphism
570 millions of speakers

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trimorphism
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Translator English - Hindi

trimorphism
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

ثلاث الأشكال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

trimorphism
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

trimorphism
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Translator English - Bengali

trimorphism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

trimorphisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Trimorphism
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Trimorphismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

trimorphism
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Translator English - Korean

trimorphism
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Translator English - Javanese

Trimorphism
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Translator English - Vietnamese

trimorphism
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Translator English - Tamil

trimorphism
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

त्रिकोणाकृती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

trimorphism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

trimorphism
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Translator English - Polish

trimorphism
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Translator English - Ukrainian

trimorphism
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Translator English - Romanian

trimorphism
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

trimorphism
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

trimorphism
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

trimorphism
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

trimorphism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of trimorphism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIMORPHISM»

The term «trimorphism» is barely ever used and occupies the 194.881 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TRIMORPHISM» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about trimorphism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TRIMORPHISM»

Discover the use of trimorphism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to trimorphism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Trimorphism
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Timoteus Elmo, 2012
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Floral Biology: Studies on Floral Evolution in ...
relationships between stylar monomorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism and do these represent stages in the assembly of tristyly in the genus? What selective forces are responsible for the evolution of stigma-height polymorphisms and why  ...
David G. Lloyd, Spencer C.H. Barrett, 1996
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Modern Foraminifera
reported biological trimorphism, particularly in regard to the larger, algal symbiont -bearing Foraminifera (see Rottger et al.. 1986. 1990; Harney et al.. 1998; Dettmering et al.. 1998). Does biological trimorphism extend to trimorphism of the test?
Barun K. Sen Gupta, 2002
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Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 4: ...
Da Cunha (1949) found that a trimorphism, dark, intermediate, and light-colored abdomen in wild D. polymorphs, depended on segregation of two alleles with semidominance. The frequency of the light allele varied between 18% and 39% ...
Sewall Wright, 1984
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On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition (物種源始(第六版)):
5. Reciprocal. Dimorphism. And. Trimorphism. This subject may be here briefly discussed, and will be found to throw some lightonhybridism. Severalplants belonging to distinct orders present two forms, which exist in about equal numbers ...
Charles Darwin, 2011
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On the Origin of Species, 6th Edition
5. Reciprocal. Dimorphism. And. Trimorphism. This subject may be here briefly discussed, and will be found to throw some lightonhybridism. Severalplants belonging to distinct orders present two forms, which exist in about equal numbers ...
Charles Darwin
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A Calendar of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 1821-1882
46 LL 2: 383 Gray Herbarium 67 3693. To John Lubbock 21 Aug [1862] Southampton Leonard Darwin's illness. William Darwin and the bank. Beginning to make out a marvellous case of trimorphism. ALS 4pp Down House (MS 7: 4) 3694.
Frederick Burkhardt, Sydney Smith, David Kohn, 1994
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the origin of species:
Trimorphism. Thissubject may behere briefly discussed, and will be foundto throw some lighton hybridism. Several plants belonging to distinct orders present two forms,which existin about equal numbers and which differ inno respect except ...
Charles Robert Darwin, 1876
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The Origin of Species
Trimorphism. This subject may be here briefly discussed, and will be found to throw some light on hybridism. Several plants belonging to distinct orders present two forms, which exist in about equal numbers and which differ in no respect ...
Charles Darwin, 2010
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Publicaties
CHAPTER I TRIMORPHISM Life-cycles of Foraminifera have been published lately by several authors. Those given by M e y e r s and G r e 1 1 deal with groups of Foraminifera which either are plastogamic or are dimorphic. The life- cycle that ...
Natuurhistorisch Genootschap in Limburg, 1966

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TRIMORPHISM»

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Phillip V. Tobias, 1925 - 2012
Or, given that apes are known to have it (orangs, anyway), perhaps sexual trimorphism! Louis Leakey pushed the idea of Homo habilis on the world, and many ... «Scientific American, Jun 12»

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