Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
heteromorphic , 3. - Same as
heteromorphic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Heteromorphic.
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- adjective biology
heteromorphic
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Examples
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The heteromorphous sterculia of the interior, and some species of eucalyptus of very stunted growth covered its sides, which however for a considerable distance were not deficient in grass.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003
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Usually such changes are entirely heteromorphous, and, as it were, foreign to the natural organisation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The term organization includes the conversion of the effusion into tissue, taking its character from the subjacent structures; the development of false membranes: and the formation of certain heteromorphous products, as Tubercle, Cancer, &c.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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The heteromorphous sterculia of the interior, and some species of eucalyptus of very stunted growth covered its sides, which however for a considerable distance were not deficient in grass.
Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales John Oxley 1804
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