Part 5274

<h1>Heterosporic, Heterosporous</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw><hw>Het`er*o*spor"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Het`er*o*spor"ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + <ets>spore</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.</def>

<h1>Heterostyled</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het"er*o*styled</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.</def>

<i>Darwin.</i>

<h1>Heterostylism</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*sty"lism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>The condition of being heterostyled.</def>

<h1>Heterotactous</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het`er*o*tac"tous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy.</def>

<h1>Heterotaxy</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw>Het"er*o*tax`y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <?/ an arrangement, fr. <?/ to arrange.]</ety> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, <as>as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement</as>.</def>

<h1>Heterotopism, Heterotopy</h1> <Xpage=690>

<hw><hw>Het`er*ot"o*pism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Het`er*ot"o*py</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Hetero-</ets> + Gr. <?/ place: cf. F. <ets>h\'82t\'82rotopie</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>A deviation from the natural position of parts, supposed to be effected in thousands of years, by the gradual displacement of germ cells.</def>

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<h1>Heterotricha</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Het`e*rot"ri*cha</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ other + <?/, gen. <?/, a hair.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.</def>

<mhw><h1>Heterotropal, Heterotropous</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Het`er*ot"ro*pal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Het`er*ot"ro*pous</hw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></mhw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <grk>"etero`tropos</grk> turning another way; <?/ other + <?/ to turn: cf. F. <ets>h\'82t\'82rotrope</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous.</def>

<i>Gray.</i>

<h1>Hething</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>He"thing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Contempt; scorn.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Hetman</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Het"man</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Hetmans</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Pol. <ets>hetman</ets>. Cf. <er>Ataman</er>.]</ety> <def>A Cossack headman or general. The title of <i>chief hetman</i> is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.</def>

<h1>Heugh</h1> <Xpage=691>

<hw>Heugh</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Hogh</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.</def> <mark>[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>