dimorfismo
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10 characters
Language
Portuguese
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dimorfismo is aPortuguesenoun. It means: aquilo que assume duas formas diferentes Pronounced /d͡ʒi.moʁˈfiz.mu/ [d͡ʒi.mohˈfiz.mu].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dimorfismo |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /d͡ʒi.moʁˈfiz.mu/ [d͡ʒi.mohˈfiz.mu] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for dimorfismo is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /d͡ʒi.moʁˈfiz.mu/ [d͡ʒi.mohˈfiz.mu]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for dimorfismo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is dimorfismo, spelled D-I-M-O-R-F-I-S-M-O, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1aquilo que assume duas formas diferentes
- 2ocorrência, dentro de um mesmo grupo de indivíduos da mesma espécie, de dois grupos geneticamente distintos em um mesmo caractere
- 3ocorrência de indivíduos com duas tipologias distintas numa mesma espécie
- 4ocorrência de indivíduos com duas tipologias distintas numa mesma espécie
- 5na mineralogia, condição de algumas substâncias de se cristalizarem de duas formas distintas e irredutíveis
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