polyphenic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having multiple phenotypes that can arise as a result of differing environmental conditions.
Example Sentences
- "Both types of threshold mechanism have been shown to couple horn growth with nutrition in scarab beetles and are considered facultative (polyphenic) regulatory processes, and preliminary evidence suggested that they might sometimes both be present in the same species."