Part 5269

<h1>Heterodox</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het"er*o*dox</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An opinion opposed to some accepted standard.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Heterodoxal</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het"er*o*dox`al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Not orthodox.</def>

<i>Howell.</i>

<h1>Heterodoxy</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het"er*o*dox`y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/: cf. F. <ets>h\'82t\'82rodoxie</ets>.]</ety> <def>An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy.</def>

<i>Bp. Bull.</i>

<h1>Heterodromous</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*od"ro*mous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <?/ to run.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having spirals of changing direction.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Mech.)</fld> <def>Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.</def>

<h1>Heterogamous</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*og"a*mous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <grk>ga`mos</grk> marriage: cf. F. <ets>h\'82t\'82rogame</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot. & Biol.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers which differ in regard to stamens and pistils, as in the aster.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>Characterized by heterogamy.</def>

<h1>Heterogamy</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*og"a*my</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Heterogamous</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The process of fertilization in plants by an indirect or circuitous method; -- opposed to <i>orthogamy</i>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>That form of alternate generation in which two kinds of sexual generation, or a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation, alternate; -- in distinction from <i>metagenesis</i>, where sexual and asexual generations alternate.</def>

<i>Claus & Sedgwick.</i>

<h1>Heterogangliate</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*gan"gli*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + <ets>gangliate</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>Having the ganglia of the nervous system unsymmetrically arranged; -- said of certain invertebrate animals.</def>

<h1>Heterogene</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het"er*o*gene</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Heterogenous.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Heterogeneal</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*ge"ne*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Heterogeneous.</def>

<h1>Heterogeneity</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*ge*ne"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>h\'82t\'82rog\'82n\'82it\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>The state of being heterogeneous; contrariety.</def>