heterogonous

Also het·er·o·gon·ic

[het-uh-rog-uh-nuhs]

adjective

1. Botany.,  of or relating to monoclinous flowers of two or more kinds occurring on different individuals of the same species, the kinds differing in the relative length of stamens and pistils (homogonous ).

2. heterogynous.

3. of, relating to, or characterized by heterogony.

Other Word Forms

• heterogonously adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of heterogonous¹

1865–70; hetero- + Greek gón ( os ) race, descent, birth + -ous

Example Sentences

It made him more tolerant - before, we were a heterogonous group that only wanted trouble.

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Heterogony, Heterogone, or Heterogonous, with stamens and pistil reciprocally of two sorts, 116.

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Gray, Professor Asa, proposes the term heterogone or heterogonous. on Linum.

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