pleiomeric

Adjective

pleiomeric (not comparable)

1. Having more than the usual number or variety of structures.
   • Upon further changes these flowers became oligo- or pleiomeric.1925, Botanical Abstracts - Volume 14, page 62
   • As for the many species and varieties of angiosperms, horticultural or natural, with their pleiomeric and meiomeric floral members, petaloid stamens, staminoid petals, carpelloid stamens, etc., it would be difficult to assert absolutely whether we were concerned with disorganizations or...1970, Claude Wilson Wardlaw, Cellular Differentiation in Plants: And Other Essays, page 141
2. Having large, asymmetric nucleotide formations.
   • The great variety of nucleotide conformations which occur in these large asymmetric units has prompted us to describe them as pleiomeric, a term used in botany to describe whorls having more than the usual number of structures.1983, Struther Arnott, R. Chandrasekaran, A.K. Banerjee, Rungen He, J.K. Walker, “New wrinkles on polynucleotide duplexes”, in Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, volume 1, number 2
   • The morphological differences between this pleiomeric DNA polymer and closely-related, but more symmetrical allomorphs are just as great as those observed in short DNA fragments in crystals.1985, Cambridge Scientific Biochemistry Abstracts: Nucleic acids