Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Heterogonous: opposed to homostyled.

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  • adjective (Bot.) Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.

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  • adjective botany Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.

Etymologies

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hetero- +‎ styled

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Examples

  • Peculiarities in the reproductive system affecting individuals of the same species reach their maximum in what are called heterostyled, or dimorphic and trimorphic flowers, the phenomena presented by which form one of the most remarkable of Mr. Darwin's many discoveries.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Such are, the various adjustments of length and position of the stamens to bring the pollen to the insect and from the insect to the stigma; the various motions of stamens and styles at the right time and the right direction; the physiological adjustments bringing about fertility or sterility in heterostyled plants; the traps, springs, and complex movements of various parts of orchids; and innumerable other remarkable phenomena.

    Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • I should be much obliged if you could without much trouble send me seeds of any heterostyled herbaceous plants (i.e. a species which would flower soon), as it would be easy work for me to raise some illegitimate seedlings to test their degree of infertility.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • I am the more anxious to do so as a writer in the United States has described a species, and seems to doubt whether it is heterostyled, for he thinks the difference in the length of the pistil depends merely on its growth!

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • As before remarked, no little discovery of mine ever gave me so much pleasure as the making out the meaning of heterostyled flowers.

    The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin 1845

  • The Lythraceae must be excluded, as these are heterostyled.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • Pontederia, for I am now printing a small book on heterostyled plants, and on some allied subjects.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • Lagerstraemia was doubtfully placed among the heterostyled plants

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • In my new book I shall use all the information and specimens which you have sent me with respect to the heterostyled plants, and your published notices.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

  • I am especially glad that you have called attention to the parallelism between illegitimate offspring of heterostyled plants and hybrids.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

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