Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having unequal or differing parts within the same structure or similar structures.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Diversiform; variously composed; having a heterologous composition; consisting of heteronomous parts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem & Crystallog.) Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects.
- adjective (Bot.) With the parts not corresponding in number.
- adjective Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras.
- adjective Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Having
different types ornumbers ofparts (within the same or similar structure)
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Examples
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Like P. Montezumae, and under like influences, it shows much dimensional variation, and the leaf-fascicles are heteromerous, with the larger number in the southern part of its range.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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In Mexico, for example, where snow-capped mountains lie on subtropical table-lands and extremes of temperature are in juxtaposition, the conditions are favorable for the production of species with heteromerous fascicles, and the number of leaves in the fascicle possesses often climatic rather than specific significance.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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With some species, however, heteromerous fascicles are normal.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
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In the Malay Islands I found a heteromerous beetle which exactly resembled a Therates, both being found running on the trunks of trees.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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In Borneo a large black wasp, whose wings have a broad white patch near the apex (Mygnimia aviculus), is closely imitated by a heteromerous beetle (Coloborhombus fasciatipennis), which, contrary to the general habit of beetles, keeps its wings expanded in order to show the white patch on their apex, the wing-coverts being reduced to small oval scales, as shown in the figure.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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