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Meaning of polyphenic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Having multiple phenotypes that can arise as a result of differing environmental conditions.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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