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Any animal with heterodont dentition.

of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects. Raw and indigested, heterodox, preaching. Strype.

Not orthodox. Howell.

An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy. Bp. Bull.

Having spirals of changing direction. Gray.

Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with autocious. -- Het`er*o"cism (#), n.

Characterized by heterogamy.

The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to orthogamy.

Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.

Heterogenous. [Obs.]

Heterogeneous.

The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety. The difference, indeed the heterogeneity, of the two may be felt. Coleridge.

s of which it is made up. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n. Heterogeneous nouns (Gram.), nouns having different genders in the singular and plural numbers; as, hic locus, of the masculine gender in the singular, and hi loci and hæc loca, both masculine and neuter in the plural; hoc cælum,…

Spontaneous generation, so called.

Relating to heterogenesis; as, heterogenetic transformations.

One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis. Bastian.

Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.

Heterogenesis.

Characterized by heterogony. -- Het`er*og"o*nous*ly, adv.

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.