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2. Noun. (informal) A heterosexual person. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hetero

1. a heterosexual [n -EROS] - See also: heterosexual

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hetero

Literary usage of Hetero

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"In acid solution hetero- ... in its physical behavior shows that it stands further removed from the original albuminous molecule than hetero- ..."

2. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1906)
"list of the Hemiptera hetero- ptera of the vicinity of Wood's Holl, Massachusetts, [nn. spp. ? in ..."

3. Clinical Diagnosis: A Text-book of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical by Charles Phillips Emerson (1908)
"... which occurs in certain rare conditions in the urine in very large amounts, was supposed, from some of its chemical properties, to belong to the hetero- ..."

4. Lang's German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied by Hugo Lang, Milton Kayton Meyers (1913)
"hetero-chromie hetero-plasie, /. development of abnormal tissue hetero-plastik, /. transplantation of tissues, etc., from another individual ..."

5. A Textbook of Organic Chemistry by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1921)
"SECTION II V hetero-CYCLIC COMPOUNDS In the introduction to the benzene series ... Also in uric acid we have a double hetero-cyclic compound containing two ..."

6. An Elementary Treatise on Electricity by James Clerk Maxwell (1881)
"In a hetero- static instrument, like the quadrant electrometer,, the indication is to the one side or to the other, as the potential is ..."

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