Dimorphism
# 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
