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  • English Word Heteroousian Definition Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.
  • English Word Heteroousian Definition One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.
  • English Word Heteroousious Definition See Heteroousian.
  • English Word Heteropathic Definition Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.
  • English Word Heteropathy Definition That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.
  • English Word Heteropelmous Definition Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.
  • English Word Heterophagi Definition Altrices.
  • English Word Heterophemist Definition One liable to the fault of heterophemy.
  • English Word Heterophemy Definition The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness.
  • English Word Heterophony Definition An abnormal state of the voice.
  • English Word Heterophyllous Definition Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.
  • English Word Heteroplasm Definition An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition.
  • English Word Heteroplastic Definition Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone.
  • English Word Heteropod Definition One of the Heteropoda.
  • English Word Heteropod Definition Heteropodous.
  • English Word Heteropoda Definition An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.
  • English Word Heteropodous Definition Of or pertaining to the Heteropoda.
  • English Word Heteropter Definition One of the Heteroptera.
  • English Word Heteroptera Definition A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.
  • English Word Heteroptics Definition False optics.
  • English Word Heteroscian Definition One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).
  • English Word Heterosis Definition A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: "What is life to such as me?"
  • English Word Heterosomati Definition An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut, sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi.
  • English Word Heterosporic Definition Alt. of Heterosporous
  • English Word Heterosporous Definition Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.
  • English Word Heterostyled Definition Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.
  • English Word Heterostylism Definition The condition of being heterostyled.
  • English Word Heterotactous Definition Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy.
  • English Word Heterotaxy Definition Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.
  • English Word Heterotopism Definition Alt. of Heterotopy