Search the Dictionary

A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race.

eply, another excels in a in a rejoinder. Swift. Happy family, a collection of animals of different and hostile propensities living peaceably together in one cage. Used ironically of conventional alliances of persons who are in fact mutually repugnant. -- Happy-go-lucky, trusting to hap or luck; improvident; easy-goin…

A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltböllia incurvata, and to the species of Ægilops, from one of which it is contended that wheat has been derived.

g bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.

One who shows the agreement or harmony of corresponding passages of different authors, as of the four evangelists.

or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between the different parts of a design or composition as to produce unity of effect; as, the harmony of the universe.

rcing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others.

t is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystallized, is called hæmatocrystallin. See Blood crystal, under Blood.

A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.

by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. Simmonds.

A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous.

Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference.

A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algæ related to nostoc.

Having the teeth differentiated into incisors, canines, and molars, as in man; -- opposed to homodont.

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.

Differing in kind; having unlike qualities; possessed of different characteristics; dissimilar; -- opposed to homogeneous, and said of two or more connected objects, or of a conglomerate mass, considered in respect to the parts of which it is made up. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Het`er*o*ge"ne*ous*ness, n. Hete…

he successive generations differ from each other, the parent organism producing offspring different in habit and structure from itself, the original form, however, reappearing after one or more generations; -- opposed to homogenesis, or gamogenesis.

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

Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.

That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger.