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Heterography
- - 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.
Heterogynous
- - Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.
Heterokontae
- noun - all the yellow-green algae having flagella of unequal length
Heterologies
- noun - (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts
Heterologous
- adjective - derived from organisms of a different but related species; "a heterologous graft"
- not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin
Heteromerous
- - Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homheteromerous.
Heteromorphy
- - The state or quality of being heteromorphic.
Heteromyaria
- - A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.
Heteromyidae
- noun - small New World burrowing mouselike rodents with fur-lined cheek pouches and hind limbs and tail adapted to leaping; adapted to desert conditions: pocket mice; kangaroo mice; kangaroo rats
Heteronereis
- - A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.