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Meanings of Heteromorphism:

noun

The quality or condition of existing in various forms.

Usage examples:

Chromosomal heteromorphism

Meanings of Heteromorphous:

adjective

Occurring in two or more different forms, especially at different stages in the life cycle.

Usage examples:

Silene latifolia is a dioecious plant with heteromorphic sex chromosomes.

Meanings of Heteronomous:

adjective

Subject to a law or standard external to itself.

Usage examples:

Conversely the more heteronomous they are in their literary practices, the more inclined they are t…

Meanings of Heteronym:

noun

Each of two or more words which are spelled identically but have different sounds and meanings, such as tear meaning ‘rip’ and tear meaning ‘liquid from the eye’.

Meanings of Heterophilic:

adjective

Of or relating to the tendency of people to seek out or be drawn to those they perceive to be different to themselves.

Meanings of Heteropolar:

adjective

Characterized by opposite or alternating polarity.

Usage examples:

All cells in the colony are heteropolar, and all setae are directed toward one end of the chain.

Meanings of Heteroptera:

plural noun

A group of true bugs comprising those in which the forewings are non-uniform, having a thickened base and membranous tip. the predatory and water bugs belong to this group, as well as many plant bugs.

Usage examples:

To date, 10 insect orders, homoptera, heteroptera, lepidoptera, coleoptera, hymenoptera, diptera, o…

Meanings of Heteros:

noun

A heterosexual person.

adjective

Heterosexual.

Usage examples:

Hetero and gay couples

Meanings of Heterosex:

adjective

Heterosexual.

noun

Sexual intercourse or activity between people of opposite sexes. also: the state or quality of being sexually attracted to individuals of the opposite sex.

Meanings of Heterosexual:

adjective

Sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to people of the opposite sex.

Usage examples:

I consider myself heterosexual

noun

(of a person) sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.

Meanings of Heterosexuality:

noun

The quality or characteristic of being sexually attracted solely to people of the opposite sex.

Meanings of Heterosexually:

adverb

In a way that relates to being heterosexual (= sexually or romantically attracted to men if you are a woman, and women if you are a man)

Usage examples:

I don't think he's heterosexually inclined., back then people didn't believe hiv could be transmitt…

Meanings of Heterosexuals:

noun

A heterosexual person.

adjective

Sexually or romantically attracted exclusively to people of the opposite sex.

Usage examples:

I consider myself heterosexual

Meanings of Heterosis:

noun

Technical term for hybrid vigour.

Meanings of Heterostyly:

noun

The condition (e.g. in primroses) of having styles of different lengths relative to the stamens in the flowers of different individual plants, to reduce self-fertilization.

Usage examples:

Flowering plants have several mechanisms that have evolved to prevent self-fertilization, e.g. self…

Meanings of Heterotic:

adjective

Relating to hybrid vigour (heterosis).

Usage examples:

These two strains are quite divergent for various qualitative and quantitative traits and produce h…

Meanings of Heterotopia:

noun

A place (or notional place) that exists as an ordinary part of a society but which is also in some way demarcated, separate, or marginal, meaning the norms of wider society (though present) can become blurred, undermined, resisted, or transformed by different modes of thought and behaviour arising within the place itself.

Meanings of Heterotransplant:

noun

Another term for xenograft.

Meanings of Heterotroph:

noun

An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

Usage examples:

This photosynthetic control of cell-cycle progression is similar to the nutritional control of hete…

Meanings of Heterotrophic:

adjective

(of a living thing) getting its food from other plants or animals, or relating to such living things

Usage examples:

Carbon dioxide is utilized by heterotrophic organisms., there are high levels of heterotrophic bact…

Meanings of Heterozygosity:

noun

The possession of two different alleles of a particular gene or genes by an individual.

Usage examples:

Asexual reproduction usually leads to loss of genomic heterozygosity

Meanings of Heterozygote:

noun

An individual having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes, and so giving rise to varying offspring.

Usage examples:

In a population with variation on both sex chromosomes, one does not know which sex chromosome carr…

Meanings of Heterozygotes:

noun

An individual having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes, and so giving rise to varying offspring.

Usage examples:

In a population with variation on both sex chromosomes, one does not know which sex chromosome carr…

Meanings of Heterozygous:

adjective

Having two different alleles of a particular gene or genes.

Usage examples:

The genetic study showed two heterozygous variants

Meanings of Hetman:

noun

A polish or cossack military commander.

Usage examples:

In 1648, led by the kozak hetman (military leader) bohdan khmelnytsky, ukrainians rose against pola…