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Heterology
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Heterology has 1 sense
- heterology(n = noun.attribute) - (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts; is a kind of dissimilarity, unsimilarity
Derived forms adjective heterologic1, adjective heterological1, adjective heterologous2, adjective heterologous1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Heterology, n. [Hetero- + -logy.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
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