Vocabulary : Heteromera to Heteronomy

Heteromera : A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.
Heteromerous : Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous. ;; With the parts not corresponding in number. ;; Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras. ;; Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles.
Heteromorphic : Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower.
Heteromorphism : Alt. of Heteromorphy
Heteromorphous : Heteromorphic.
Heteromorphy : The state or quality of being heteromorphic.
Heteromyaria : A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.
Heteronereis : A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.
Heteronomous : Subject to the law of another.
Heteronomy : Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy. ;; A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on us from without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, or desires.
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