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3. (Zoˆl.) (a) Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras. (b) Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles.

Het`er*o*mor"phic (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; form.] (Biol.) 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.

{ Het`er*o*mor"phism (?), Het`er*o*mor"phy (?), } n. (Biol.) The state or quality of being heteromorphic.

Het`er*o*mor"phous (?), a. (Biol.) Heteromorphic.

||Het`e*ro*my*a"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; other + &?; a ||muscle.] (Zoˆl.) A division of bivalve shells, including the marine ||mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See ||Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

||Het`e*ro*ne*re"is (?), n. [NL. See Hetero-, and Nereis.] (Zoˆl.) A ||free- swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamellÊ, and their setÊ become longer and bladelike.

Het`er*on"o*mous (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. no`mos law.] Subject to the law of another. Krauth-Fleming.

Het`er*on"o*my (?), n. 1. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

2. (Metaph.) 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. Krauth- Fleming.

Het"er*o*nym (?), n. That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.

Het`er*on"y*mous (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. "o`nyma, for "o`noma a name.] Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations. J. Le Conte.

-- Het"er*on"y*mous*ly, adv.

Het`er*o*ou`si*an (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; being, essence.] Having different essential qualities; of a different nature.

Het`er*o*ou"si*an (?), n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

Het`er*o*ou"si*ous (?), a. See Heteroousian.

Het`er*o*path"ic (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; suffering, fr. &?;, &?;, to suffer.] Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.

Het`er*op"a*thy (?), n. [See Heteropathic.] (Med.) That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

Het`er*o*pel"mous (?), a. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; the sole of the foot.] (Anat.) Having each of the two flexor tendons of the toes bifid, the branches of one going to the first and second toes; those of the other, to the third and fourth toes. See Illust. in Append.

||Het`e*roph"a*gi (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; other + &?; to eat.] ||(Zoˆl.) Altrices.

Het`er*oph"e*mist (?), n. One liable to the fault of heterophemy.

Het`er*oph"e*my (?), n. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; voice, speech, fr. &?; to speak.] The unconscious saying, in speech or in writing, of that which one does not intend to say; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness. R. G. White.

Het`er*oph"o*ny (?), n. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; voice.] (Med.) An abnormal state of the voice. Mayne.

Het`er*oph"yl*lous (?), a. [Gr. &?; other + &?; leaf: cf. F. hÈtÈrophylle.] (Bot.) Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.

Het"er*o*plasm (?), n. [Hetero- + Gr. &?; anything formed or molded.] An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. Dunglison.

Het`er*o*plas"tic (?), a. [Hetero- + -plastic.] (Biol.) Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone. Haeckel.

Het`er*o*pod (?), n. [Cf. F. hÈtÈropode.] (Zoˆl.) One of the Heteropoda. -- a. Heteropodous.

||Het`e*rop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; other + -poda.] (Zoˆl.) ||An order of pelagic Gastropoda, having the foot developed into a ||median fin. Some of the species are naked; others, as Carinaria and ||Atlanta, have thin glassy shells.