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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.

One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

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.

Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.

Altrices.

One liable to the fault of heterophemy.

The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness. R. G. White.

An abnormal state of the voice. Mayne.

Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.

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