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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An organ or part corresponding in external form to another, though of distinct nature.
  • noun That which is homoplastic, as any aggregate or fusion of plastids: opposed to alloplast.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoörgan.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biology One of the plastids composing the "idorgan" of Ernst Haeckel.

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