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Definition of Heteromorphic

1. a. 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.

Definition of Heteromorphic

1. Adjective. (biology) Having different forms in different stages of the life cycle ¹

2. Adjective. Differing in size or structure from the normal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heteromorphic

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Heteromorphic

1. 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. Origin: Hetero- + Gr. Form. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heteromorphic

Literary usage of Heteromorphic

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

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1899)
"heteromorphic, dentate scales, in an irregular row on each side of the costa, attached by the posterior margin or near the middle with the margins free. ..."

2. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"This kind of union is designated heteromorphic, as distinguished from the homomorphic, in which the pollen is transferred from the anther to the stigma of ..."

3. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1902)
"6) Many of these pieces produce heteromorphic tails at the anterior ... It is probable that the number of segments in these heteromorphic tails is regulated ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy by Royal Irish Academy (1874)
"The amount of such heteromorphic chemical molecules which can become associated in a ... may contain two or more kinds of heteromorphic chemical molecules. ..."

5. Regeneration by Thomas Hunt Morgan (1901)
"Van Duyne spoke of the double and single head of the latter kind which he obtained as heteromorphic structures in Loeb's use of the term. ..."

6. International Classification of Causes of Sickness and Death by Jacques Bertillon, United States Bureau of the Census (1910)
"... or of the cardiac orifice of the stomach, or of the pylorus. — Carcinoma, or scirrhus, or colloid tumor, or heteromorphic tumor, or neoplastic tumor, ..."

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