Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Characterized by the alternation of sexual and parthenogenic generations.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, having dissimilar reproductive organs: a term proposed by Asa Gray, in 1877, to include such flowers as are dimorphic or trimorphic in regard to the relative length of stamens and pistils.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Characterized by heterogony.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Characterized by
heterogony .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This requires new photonic technology, primarily optical switches, capable of tying heterogonous network elements together.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Nigeria is a colossus of unrealised potentials; a somnolent giant in need of awakening; a floundering ship groping for direction; an heterogonous and discordant country in want of a unifying theme; an artificial sovereignty in need of a redefined purpose of nationhood; a dispossessed and downtrodden populace thirsting for better times, hungering for a good life and longing for social justice.
Vanguard News 2009
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The data gathered by AWR is also used by ADDM to produce intelligent recommendation reports. spViewer Enterprise allows you to work simultaneously in heterogonous environment, which includes both STATSPACK repositories of different versions from different databases and AWR databases.
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