Heterogonous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Heterogonous is an adjective meaning (botany) Characterized by heterogony.
Meaning
(botany) Characterized by heterogony.
More Meanings
- Having offspring that are dissimilar to their parents.
- Having multiple origins.
- Misspelling of heterogenous.
Example Sentences
What underpins this is a complex, heterogonous, and to Freud, timeless, field of unconscious traces, drives, instincts, processes or, relatedly, Id.
The Chermes not only pass through a heterogonism in five sparate generations, but one and the same species can live in related rows by the temporary suppression of the true heterogonous circles.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include heterogonic, heteromorphous, heterodichogamous, heterogenetic, heterogamous, heteromorphotic.
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