polymorph

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

POL'YMORPH, noun [Gr. many and form.] A name given by Soldani to a numerous tribe or series of shells, which are very small, irregular and singular in form, and which cannot be referred to any known genus.
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