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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 calledhomoörgan .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology One of the
plastids composing the "idorgan" of Ernst Haeckel.
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