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  • English Word Homoplast Definition One of the plastids composing the idorgan of Haeckel; -- also called homoorgan.
  • English Word Homoplastic Definition Of or pertaining to homoplasty; as, homoplasticorgans; homoplastic forms.
  • English Word Homoplasty Definition The formation of homologous tissues.
  • English Word Homoplasy Definition See Homogeny.
  • English Word Homopolic Definition In promorphology, pertaining to or exhibiting that kind of organic form, in which the stereometric ground form is a pyramid, with similar poles. See Promorphology.
  • English Word Homopter Definition One of the Homoptera.
  • English Word Homoptera Definition A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.
  • English Word Homopteran Definition An homopter.
  • English Word Homopterous Definition Of or pertaining to the Homoptera.
  • English Word Homostyled Definition Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants.
  • English Word Homosystemic Definition Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.
  • English Word Homotaxia Definition Same as Homotaxis.
  • English Word Homotaxial Definition Alt. of Homotaxic
  • English Word Homotaxic Definition Relating to homotaxis.
  • English Word Homotaxis Definition Similarly in arrangement of parts; -- the opposite of heterotaxy.
  • English Word Homotaxy Definition Same as Homotaxis.
  • English Word Homothermic Definition Alt. of Homothermous
  • English Word Homothermous Definition Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; haematothermal.
  • English Word Homotonous Definition Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.
  • English Word Homotropal Definition Alt. of Homotropous
  • English Word Homotropous Definition Turned in the same direction with something else.
  • English Word Homotropous Definition Having the radicle of the seed directed towards the hilum.
  • English Word Homotypal Definition Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as, homotypal parts.
  • English Word Homotype Definition That which has the same fundamental type of structure with something else; thus, the right arm is the homotype of the right leg; one arm is the homotype of the other, etc.
  • English Word Homotypic Definition Alt. of Homotypical
  • English Word Homotypical Definition Same as Homotypal.
  • English Word Homotypy Definition A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.
  • English Word Homunculi Definition of Homunculus
  • English Word Homunculus Definition A little man; a dwarf; a manikin.
  • English Word Hond Definition Hand.