POLYMORPH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

An organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("polymorph" is a kind of...):

being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)

Derivation:

polymorphic (having or occurring in several distinct forms)

polymorphic (relating to the occurrence of more than one kind of individual (independent of sexual differences) in an interbreeding population)