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protean


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Protean  \Pro"te*an\,  a. 
  1.  Of  or  pertaining  to  Proteus;  characteristic  of  Proteus.  `` 
  Protean  transformations.''  --Cudworth. 
 
  2.  Exceedingly  variable;  readily  assuming  different  shapes  or 
  forms;  as  an  am[oe]ba  is  a  protean  animalcule. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  protean 
  adj  :  taking  on  different  forms;  "eyes...of  that  baffling  protean 
  gray  which  is  never  twice  the  same" 




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