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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.

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.

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

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…

That method of reproduction in which the 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.

Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; -- opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs. Heterologous stimulus. (Physiol.) See under Stimulus. -- Heterologous tumor (Med.), a tumor differing in structure from the normal tissues of the bo…

on, 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.

Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.…

That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.

Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations. J. Le Conte. -- Het"er*on"y*mous*ly, adv.

Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.

An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. Dunglison.

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone. Haeckel.

ook and old English charters, the quantity of which is not well ascertained, but has been differently estimated at 80, 100, and 120 acres. [Written also hyde.]

le. In whose high-toned impartial mind Degrees of mortal rank and state Seem objects of indifferent weight. Sir W. Scott.

meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.

A conical or branching body, by which a seaweed is attached to its support, and differing from a root in that it is not specially absorbent of moisture.