Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Heteromorphæ, as the hoactzin.
- noun A decorative design representing a certain object, but modified in character by representing another object at the same time, as, for instance, flower designs the branches of which represent animals.
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- noun zoology An
ammonite whoseshell is unusual in not being aregular spiral .
Etymologies
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See heteromorphic.
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Examples
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Still it is a hideous blot, as well from the heteromorph peculiarities of the race, as that, with them, physical compulsion to action must be substituted for the moral necessity which constrains the free laborers to work equally hard.
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