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Definition of Heterogony
1. n. The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.
Definition of Heterogony
1. Noun. (botany) The condition of having two or more kinds of flower, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils. ¹
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Definition of Heterogony
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Medical Definition of Heterogony
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterogony
Literary usage of Heterogony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"But generally the principles of mental growth and heterogony of ends operate in
the case of such an oscillation, so that succeeding phases though they are ..."
2. Gray's School and Field Book of Botany: Consisting of "Lessons in Botany by Asa Gray (1887)
"heterogony. This is the case in which hermaphrodite and fertile flowers of two
sorts are produced on different individuals of the same species ; one sort, ..."
3. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"Very often heterogony has been insufficiently distinguished from ... On the other
hand there have been included under heterogony modes of reproduction in ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Another term for this phase of reproduction is heterogony (or ... He mentions
another form of heterogony where two generations with different forms and ..."
5. The Evolution Theory by August Weismann (1904)
"The heterogony of the plant-lice, the Aphides, and their relatives might be cited
as against the probability, for in this case a long series of ..."
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