The phrase "a multitude of distinctive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a large number of unique or different items, characteristics, or features in a particular context.
Example: "The festival showcased a multitude of distinctive art styles from various cultures around the world."
Alternatives: "a variety of unique" or "a range of distinctive".
The introduction to "A Kosher Christmas" does the book no favors, reminding us of its university press roots with sentences like: "We encounter in the following chapters a multitude of distinctive strategies that portray how Jews survive and thrive in American society and how they transform Christmastime into a holiday season belonging to all Americans".
Neanderthals are characterized by a multitude of distinctive cranial, mandibular, dental, and postcranial anatomical features (Fig. 2), many of which are unique to them.
Five species of Metrosideros (Myrtaceae) are recognized in the Hawaiian Islands, including the widespread M. polymorpha, and are characterized by a multitude of distinctive, yet overlapping, habit, ecological, and morphological forms.
As the scientific name suggests, M. polymorpha, which is subdivided into eight varieties, is characterized by a multitude of distinctive, yet overlapping habit, ecological, and morphological forms, ranging from scandent shrubs to towering trees, from montane bogs to recent lava flows, and from large glabrous leaves to minute hairy ones [5].
Likewise, E. longa has lost most of the photosynthetic genes found in the plastid of its close relative Euglena gracilis, but they share many features that are unique to euglenids, such as three tandem repeats of the RNA operon and a multitude of distinctive introns [ 5].
The nation's estimated 30,000 international postdocs come from a multitude of countries with distinctive cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Some of these clusters correspond to well-known plant miRNAs and we found that for all of these cases the read distribution is very distinctive in that a multitude of different reads, often of very high abundance, were associated with the mature miRNA and the miRNA* regions of the precursor miRNA, but virtually no reads aligned to the intervening region.
An individual spider spins a multitude of silk types, with each type emerging from its own distinctive set of abdominal silk glands.
A multitude of characters.
