heterogonous

English

Adjective

heterogonous (comparative more heterogonous, superlative most heterogonous)

  1. (botany) Characterized by heterogony.
  2. Having offspring that are dissimilar to their parents.
    • 1917, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Volume 37:
      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.
  3. Having multiple origins.
    • 2016, Paul Cammell, Reinterpreting the Borderline, page 98:
      What underpins this is a complex, heterogonous, and to Freud, timeless, field of unconscious traces, drives, instincts, processes or, relatedly, Id.
  4. Misspelling of heterogenous.
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