Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing or consisting of many different sorts or kinds of things; heterogeneous; composite: as, a polygenous mountain (one made up of different strata of rocks).
- Of or pertaining to polygeny.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of, or containing, many kinds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Consisting of, or containing, many
kinds ; as, a polygenousmountain .
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