Definition of Heterophylly

1. Noun. (botany) Marked changes in leaf morphology induced by environmental conditions; the ability to display such changes. ¹

2. Noun. (botany) Significant variation in leaf shape on a same plant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heterophylly

1. [n -LIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterophylly

heterophone
heterophones
heterophonia
heterophonic
heterophonies
heterophony
heterophoria
heterophthalmus
heterophthongia
heterophyiasis
heterophyid
heterophyidae
heterophyidiasis
heterophyllies
heterophyllous
heterophylly (current term)
heterophyte
heterophytes
heteroplasia
heteroplasm
heteroplasmic
heteroplasms
heteroplasmy
heteroplastic
heteroplastic graft
heteroplastid
heteroplastide
heteroplastides
heteroplasty
heteroploid

Literary usage of Heterophylly

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

1. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"... in midwinter fully repaid for the two and a half years of waiting and watering. heterophylly IN WATER PLANTS rI ' HE phenomenon of ..."

2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"CONNEXION BETWEEN CONFIGURATION OF LEAF AND . RELATIONSHIPS OF LIFE. heterophylly Frequent reference has ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by Anna Lorraine Guthrie, Marion A. Knight, H.W. Wilson Company, Estella E. Painter (1920)
"See Amphibia; Marine zoology Aquatic plants On heterophylly in water plants. A. Arber. ... R de Paris 24.pt6' On heterophylly in water plants. ..."

4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1901)
"... 132 Hepatica acuta, heterophylly in, 65 ; Hepatica, ... 143 : nudus, 143 ; perennis, 143 ; pumilus, 143 ; Rus- byi, 143 heterophylly in ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"In Europe the former exhibits striking diversity, or heterophylly in the leafage, that is largely determined by the relative depth of water and strength of ..."

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