Australian English Meaning of heterology

Heterogeneity

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Definitions and Meaning of heterology in English

Wordnet

heterology (n)

(biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts

Webster

heterology (n.)

The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

The connection or relation of bodies which have partial identity of composition, but different characteristics and properties; the relation existing between derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology.

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Heterogeneity

(biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body partsThe absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between p

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heterologous => heterologous, heterological => Heterologous, heterologic => heterologous, heterokontophyta => Heterokontophyta, heterokontae => Heterokonts,