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rds 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.

Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.

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…

s 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.

A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.

ilar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous.

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.…

The state or quality of being heteromorphic.

Heteromorphic.

A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

Subject to the law of another. Krauth-Fleming.

Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

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.

See Heteroousian.

Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.

That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.