Het`er*o*ge"ne*al (?), a. Heterogeneous.
Het`er*o*ge*ne"i*ty (?), n. [Cf. F. hÈtÈrogÈnÈitÈ.] The state of being
heterogeneous; contrariety.
The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt.
Coleridge.
Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous (?), a. [Gr. &?;; &?; + &?; race, kind; akin to E.
kin: cf. F. hÈtÈrogËne.] Differing in kind; having unlike qualities;
possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to
homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a
conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is
made up. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n.
Heterogeneous nouns (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the
singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the masculine gender in
the singular, and hi loci and hÊc loca, both masculine and neuter in
the plural; hoc cÊlum, neuter in the singular; hi cÊli, masculine in
the plural. -- Heterogeneous quantities (Math.), such quantities as are
incapable of being compared together in respect to magnitude, and
surfaces and solids. -- Heterogeneous surds (Math.), surds having
different radical signs.
Het`er*o*gen"e*sis (?), n. [Hetero- + genesis.] 1. (Biol.) Spontaneous
generation, so called.
2. (Biol.) That method of reproduction in which the successive
generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing
offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original
form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to
homogenesis, or gamogenesis.
Het`er*o*ge*net"ic (?), a. (Biol.) Relating to heterogenesis; as,
heterogenetic transformations.
Het`er*og"e*nist (?), n. (Biol.) One who believes in the theory of
spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis. Bastian.
Het`er*og"e*nous (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to heterogenesis;
heterogenetic.
Het`er*og"e*ny (?), n. (Biol.) Heterogenesis.
Het`er*og"o*nous (?), a. (Bot.) Characterized by heterogony. --
Het`er*og"o*nous*ly, adv.
Het`er*og"o*ny (?), n. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; offspring.] (Bot.) The
condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the
length of their stamens and pistils.
Het`er*o*graph"ic (?), a. [See Heterography.] Employing the same
letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables;
-- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is
heterographic.
Het`er*og"ra*phy (?), n. [Hetero- + -graphy.] That method of spelling
in which the same letters represent different sounds in different
words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in
ginger.
Het`er*og"y*nous (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; a woman, female.] (Zoˆl.)
Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as
certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females
wingless.
Het`er*ol"o*gous (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; proportion.] Characterized
by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in
different proportions; different; -- opposed to homologous; as,
heterologous organs.
Heterologous stimulus. (Physiol.) See under Stimulus. -- Heterologous
tumor (Med.), a tumor differing in structure from the normal tissues of
the body.
Het`er*ol"o*gy (?), n. [Hetero- + -logy.] 1. (Biol.) The absence of
correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy
between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or
of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from
the normal form; -- opposed to homology.
2. (Chem.) The connection or relation of bodies which have partial
identity of composition, but different characteristics and properties;
the relation existing between derivatives of the same substance, or of
the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol,
acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other,
though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous
series. Cf. Homology.
||Het`e*rom"e*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; other + &?; part.]
||(Zoˆl.) A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.
Het`er*om"er*ous (?), a. [See Heteromera.] 1. (Chem & Crystallog.)
Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in
certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homúmorphous, but
heteromerous.