Dimorphism

Dimorphism or dimorphic may refer to:

Science

 * Dimorphic root systems, plant roots with two distinctive forms for two separate functions
 * Sexual dimorphism, a phenotypic difference between males and females of the same species
 * Nuclear dimorphism, when a cell's nuclear apparatus is composed of two structurally and functionally differentiated types of nuclei
 * Frond dimorphism, differing forms of fern fronds between the sterile and fertile fronds
 * Phenotypic dimorphism, switching between two cell-types
 * Dimorphic fungi, fungi which undergo this type of switching
 * Dimorphism (geology), the property of some substances to exist in two distinct crystalline forms

Mathematics

 * Semilinear map, a homomorphism between modules, paired with the associated homomorphism between the respective base rings