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HETEROLOGY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("heterology" is a kind of...):
dissimilarity; unsimilarity (the quality of being dissimilar)
Domain category:
biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)
Derivation:
heterologic; heterological (not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin)
heterologous (derived from organisms of a different but related species)
heterologous (not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin)
