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  • English Word Hesperornis Definition A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append.
  • English Word Hesperus Definition Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.
  • English Word Hesperus Definition Evening.
  • English Word Hessian Definition Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.
  • English Word Hessian Definition A native or inhabitant of Hesse.
  • English Word Hessian Definition A mercenary or venal person.
  • English Word Hessian Definition See Hessian boots and cloth, under Hessian, a.
  • English Word Hessite Definition A lead-gray sectile mineral. It is a telluride of silver.
  • English Word Hest Definition Command; precept; injunction.
  • English Word Hestern Definition Alt. of Hesternal
  • English Word Hesternal Definition Pertaining to yesterday. [Obs.] See Yester, a.
  • English Word Hesychast Definition One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist.
  • English Word Het Definition of Hete
  • English Word Hetairism Definition Alt. of Hetarism
  • English Word Hetarism Definition A supposed primitive state of society, in which all the women of a tribe were held in common.
  • English Word Hetchel Definition Same as Hatchel.
  • English Word Hete Definition of Hete
  • English Word Hete Definition Variant of Hote.
  • English Word Heteracanth Definition Having the spines of the dorsal fin unsymmetrical, or thickened alternately on the right and left sides.
  • English Word Heterarchy Definition The government of an alien.
  • English Word Heterauxesis Definition Unequal growth of a cell, or of a part of a plant.
  • English Word Hetercephalous Definition Bearing two kinds of heads or capitula; -- said of certain composite plants.
  • English Word Hetero- Definition A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different; as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous.
  • English Word Heterocarpism Definition The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpaea, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.
  • English Word Heterocarpous Definition Characterized by heterocarpism.
  • English Word Heterocera Definition A division of Lepidoptera, including the moths, and hawk moths, which have the antennae variable in form.
  • English Word Heterocercal Definition Having the vertebral column evidently continued into the upper lobe of the tail, which is usually longer than the lower one, as in sharks.
  • English Word Heterocercy Definition Unequal development of the tail lobes of fishes; the possession of a heterocercal tail.
  • English Word Heterochromous Definition Having the central florets of a flower head of a different color from those of the circumference.
  • English Word Heterochronism Definition Alt. of Heterochrony