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Adjective: heteromorphic  `he-tu-ru'mor-fik
  1. Having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; - applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower
    "The author described heteromorphic life cycles as inherently unstable"

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