PROTEAN

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to Proteus; characteristic of Proteus. " Protean transformations." Cudworth.

2.
a.

Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule.


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