Heteromorphous
Het′er‐o‐mor″phous (?), a.(Biol.) Heteromorphic.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Het′er‐o‐mor″phous (?), a.(Biol.) Heteromorphic.
‖Het′e‐ro‐my‐a″ri‐a (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust....
‖Het′e‐ro‐ne‐re″is (?), n. [NL. See Hetero-, and Nereis.] (Zoöl.) A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.☞ In this state the head and its appendage...
Het′er‐on″o‐mous (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. νόμοσ law.] Subject to the law of another. Krauth-Fleming.
Het′er‐on″o‐my (?), n. 1. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; — opposed to autonomy.2. (Metaph.) A term applied by K...
Het″er‐o‐nym (?), n. That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; — opposed to homonym.
Het′er‐on″y‐mous (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. ὅνυμα, for ὅνομα a name.] Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations. J. Le Conte.— Het″er‐on″y‐mous‐ly, adv.
Het′er‐o‐ou′si‐an (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. � being, essence.] Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.
Het′er‐o‐ou″si‐an (?), n.(Eccl. Hist.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.
Het′er‐o‐ou″si‐ous (?), a. See Heteroousian.
Het′er‐o‐path″ic (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. � suffering, fr. �, �, to suffer.] Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.
Het′er‐op″a‐thy (?), n. [See Heteropathic.] (Med.) That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it...
Het′er‐o‐pel″mous (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. � the sole of the foot.] (Anat.) Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and sec...
‖Het′e‐roph″a‐gi (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) Altrices.
Het′er‐oph″e‐mist (?), n. One liable to the fault of heterophemy.
Het′er‐oph″e‐my (?), n. [Hetero- + Gr. � voice, speech, fr. � to speak.] The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; — frequently ...
Het′er‐oph″o‐ny (?), n. [Hetero- + Gr. � voice.] (Med.) An abnormal state of the voice. Mayne.
Het′er‐oph″yl‐lous (?), a. [Gr. � other + � leaf: cf. F. hétérophylle.] (Bot.) Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.
Het″er‐o‐plasm (?), n. [Hetero- + Gr. � anything formed or molded.] An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it i...
Het′er‐o‐plas″tic (?), a. [Hetero- + -plastic.] (Biol.) Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone...
Het′er‐o‐pod (?), n. [Cf. F. hétéropode.] (Zoöl.) One of the Heteropoda. — a. Heteropodous.
‖Het′e‐rop″o‐da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. � other + -poda.] (Zoöl.) An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; o...
Het′er‐op″o‐dous (?), a.(Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Heteropoda.
Het′er‐op″ter (?), n. One of the Heteroptera.
‖Het′e‐rop″te‐ra (?), n. pl.(Zoöl.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.
Het′er‐op″tics (?), n. [Hetero- + optics.] False optics. Spectator.
Het′er‐os″cian (?), n. [Gr. �; � other + � shadow: cf. F. hétéroscien.] One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of...