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The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.
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The connection or relation of bodies which have partial identity of composition, but different characteristics and properties; the relation existing between derivatives of the same substance, or of the analogous members of different series; as, ethane, ethyl alcohol, acetic aldehyde, and acetic acid are in heterology with each other, though each in at the same time a member of a distinct homologous series. Cf. Homology.
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A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.
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Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous.
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With the parts not corresponding in number.
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Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras.
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Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles.
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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.
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The state or quality of being heteromorphic.
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A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.
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A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.
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Subject to the law of another.
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Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.
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A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires.
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That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.
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Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations.
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Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.
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One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.
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