Protean

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Readily taking on varied shapes, forms, or meanings.
  • adj. Exhibiting considerable variety or diversity: "He loved to show off his protean talent” ( William A. Henry III).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus.
  • adj. Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Pertaining to Proteus, a sea-god of classical mythology, who could change his shape at will; hence, readily assuming different shapes; exceedingly variable.
  • [lowercase] In zoöl, changeable in form; executing movements involving shifting of shape, as an animalcule; amœbiform or amœboid; amœban; of or pertaining to a proteus-animalcule. Also proteiform.
  • n. An actor who plays a number of parts in one piece.
  • n. A salamander of the family Proteidæ; a proteid.
  • In the geology of New York, a name applied by the geologists of the first State Survey to the rocks now termed the Clinton beds of the Silurian system: in allusion to the variable character of the component stratigraphic elements.
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  • adj. taking on different forms
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