Dictionary entry

Heterotaxy

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Het″er‐o‐tax′y (?), n. [Hetero- + Gr. � an arrangement, fr. � to arrange.] (Biol.) Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.