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Definition of Heterotypic
1. Adjective. (botany) literally "with a different type". In botanical nomenclature a '''heterotypic synonym''' (or taxonomic synonym) is a synonym that comes into being when a taxon is reduced in status ("reduced to synonymy") and becomes part of a different taxon. The zoological equivalent is "subjective synonym". ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heterotypic
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Heterotypic
1. Of different types. Thus heterotypic adhesion would be between dissimilar cells, in contrast to homotypic adhesion between cells of the same type. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterotypic
Literary usage of Heterotypic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1905)
"formed prematurely during the heterotypic as was first described by Gregoire ('99).
However, Gregoire and most botanists have considered the split between ..."
2. Fecundation in Plants by David Myers Mottier (1904)
"... Tradescantia virginica, Helleborus fce tidus and Podophyllum peltatum.
THE FIRST OR heterotypic MITOSIS. RESTING NUCLEUS AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHROMATIN ..."
3. An Introduction to Cytology by Lester Whyland Sharp (1921)
"To all the kinds of stimuli applied the chromosomes react by becoming shorter
and thicker, and thus appear like heterotypic chromosomes. ..."
4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"(i) The first division in the mother cell is called heterotypic. ... (2) The
homo- typic division immediately follows the heterotypic and the figures are ..."
5. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"In the spore mother cells there are two types of nuclear division, (i) The first
division in the mother cell is called heterotypic. The early stages of this ..."
6. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"MOTTIER, DM, and NOTHNAGEL, MILDRED, The development and behavior of the chromosomes
in the first or heterotypic mitosis of pollen mother cells of Allium ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1900)
"The first division of the nucleus in the hypodermal cell is heterotypic, ...
Apparent reduction takes place as usual just previous to the heterotypic ..."
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