3. (Zoˆl.) (a) Having the femoral artery developed as the principal
artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and
pipras. (b) Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs,
but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil
beetles.
Het`er*o*mor"phic (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; form.] (Biol.) Deviating
from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at
different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same
species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide
difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants
having more than one form of flower.
{ Het`er*o*mor"phism (?), Het`er*o*mor"phy (?), } n. (Biol.) The state
or quality of being heteromorphic.
Het`er*o*mor"phous (?), a. (Biol.) Heteromorphic.
||Het`e*ro*my*a"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; other + &?; a
||muscle.] (Zoˆl.) A division of bivalve shells, including the marine
||mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See
||Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.
||Het`e*ro*ne*re"is (?), n. [NL. See Hetero-, and Nereis.] (Zoˆl.) A
||free- swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.
In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes
become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by
the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamellÊ, and their setÊ
become longer and bladelike.
Het`er*on"o*mous (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. no`mos 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 Kant to those laws which are imposed on
us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or
desires. Krauth- Fleming.
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. "o`nyma, for "o`noma 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; allopathy.
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 second toes; those of the other,
to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.
||Het`e*roph"a*gi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; other + &?; to eat.]
||(Zoˆl.) 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 the very reverse of the
thought which is present to consciousness. R. G. White.
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.
hÈtÈrophylle.] (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 in its normal condition.
Dunglison.
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. Haeckel.
Het`er*o*pod (?), n. [Cf. F. hÈtÈropode.] (Zoˆl.) One of the
Heteropoda. -- a. Heteropodous.
||Het`e*rop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; other + -poda.] (Zoˆl.)
||An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a
||median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and
||Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.
Het`er*op"o*dous (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Of or pertaining to the Heteropoda.
Het`er*op"ter (?), n. One of the Heteroptera.
||Het`e*rop"te*ra (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; other + &?; a wing.]
||(Zoˆl.) 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.
hÈtÈroscien.] One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as
contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called
because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one
northward, the other southward).
||Het`e*ro"sis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; alteration, fr. &?; other,
||different.] (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which one form of a noun,
||verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the
||sentence: "What is life to such as me?" Aytoun.
||Het`e*ro*so"ma*ti (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; other + &?;, &?;,
||body.] (Zoˆl.) An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut,
||sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on
||one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi.
{ Het`er*o*spor"ic (?), Het`er*o*spor"ous (?), } a. [Hetero- + spore.]
(Bot.) Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.
Het"er*o*styled (?), a. (Bot.) Having styles of two or more distinct
forms or lengths. Darwin.
Het`er*o*sty"lism (?), n. (Bot.) The condition of being heterostyled.
Het`er*o*tac"tous (?), a. (Biol.) Relating to, or characterized by,
heterotaxy.
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.
{ Het`er*ot"o*pism (?), Het`er*ot"o*py (?), } n. [Hetero- + Gr. &?;
place: cf. F. hÈtÈrotopie.] 1. (Med.) A deviation from the natural
position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are
abnormal in situation.
2. (Biol.) A deviation from the natural position of parts, supposed to
be effected in thousands of years, by the gradual displacement of germ
cells.
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||Het`e*rot"ri*cha (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; other + &?;, gen. &?;,
||a hair.] (Zoˆl.) A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia
||all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior
||end.
Het`er*ot"ro*pal (?), Het`er*ot"ro*pous (&?;), a. [Gr. "etero`tropos
turning another way; &?; other + &?; to turn: cf. F. hÈtÈrotrope.]
(Bot.) Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the
funiculus; amphitropous. Gray.
He"thing (?), n. Contempt; scorn. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Het"man (?), n.; pl. Hetmans (#). [Pol. hetman. Cf. Ataman.] A Cossack
headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir
to the throne of Russia.
Heugh (?), n. [Cf. Hogh.] 1. A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging
sides. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]