Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun “The state of being heterogonous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The condition of being heterostyled.
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- noun botany The condition of being
heterostyled .
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Examples
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Darwin in a number of very widely separated plants, and to which he gave the name "heterostylism."
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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I had discovered the meaning of heterostylism, and the whole statement must have been fraudulent, or there was neglect in excluding insects so gross as to be scarcely credible.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin 1845
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This case interested Darwin as the only instance of heterostylism in Monocotyledons.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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