heter-, hetero- +
(Greek: different, other, another, unlike; irregular, abnormal; used as a prefix)
This Greek element forms many scientific and other terms, often in opposition to homo-. Sometimes it is also the antonym of auto-, homoeo-, iso-, ortho-, and syn-.
heterodox, heterodoxal
1. Of doctrines, opinions, etc.; not in accordance with established doctrines or opinions, or those generally recognized as right or orthodox (originally in religion and theology).
2. Of persons holding opinions not in accord with some acknowledged standard; as in theology or in other matters of belief or opinion.
heterodox, heterodoxy
1. Of doctrines, opinions, etc. that are not considered in accordance with established doctrines or opinions, or those generally recognized as right or orthodox; originally in religion and theology.
2. A reference to people who hold opinions not in accord with some acknowledged standard in matters of belief or opinion.
heterodoxy
1. The quality or character of being heterodox; deviation from what is considered to be orthodox.
2. An opinion or doctrine at variance with that generally received as true or right; a heterodox opinion; belief or doctrine not in agreement with what is generally accepted.
heterodromous
1. Running in different or opposite directions.
2. Turning in opposite directions on the main stem and on a branch, as the generating spiral of a phyllotaxis.
heterodymus
Unequal conjoined twins in which the incomplete parasite, consisting of head and neck and, to some extent, thorax, is attached to the anterior surface of the autosite.
heterodyne
Of or relating to the combination of two different radio frequencies.
heteroecious
1. A parasite occupying two or more different hosts at different stages of a life cycle.
2. A non host-specific parasite.
3. A reference to a unisexual organism in which male and female gametes are produced by different individuals.
heteroeroticism
A condition of sexual excitement brought about by congress with a person of the opposite sex.
heterogamete
1. A gamete (a mature reproductive cell) produced by the heterogametic sex.
2. A gamete belonging to one of two distinguishable types.
A gamete may fuse with another gamete of the opposite sex, to form a zygote (fertilized gamete); the male gametes are known as sperms and the female gametes as eggs.
heterogamous, heterogamy
The succession of differently organized generations of animals or plants where sexual generation alternates with parthenogenesis.
heterogamy, heterogamous, heterogamic, heterogamosis
1. Marriage between persons distinctly unsuitable for each other or who are grossly incomptible.
2. In botany, mediate or indirect fertilization of plants.
heterogenesis, heterogenetic, heterogenic
1. The birth or origination of a living being otherwise than from a parent of the same kind.
2. The generation of animals or vegetables of low organization from inorganic matter; abiogenesis; spontaneous generation.
3. In medicine, of a disease: produced by infection from outside the body.
4. Alternation of generations.
heterogenous, heterogeneous
1. Of one body in respect of another, or of various bodies in respect to each other; that is, diverse in kind or nature, of completely different characters; incongruous; foreign.
2. Composed of diverse elements or constituents; consisting of parts of different kinds; not homogeneous.
heterogeusis
Any parageusia (perversion of the sense of taste) in which all gustatory (taste) stimuli are distorted in a similar way.
heterognathous
Having differently shaped jaws.
Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing":
ali-;
allo-;
alter-;
allelo-;
mut-;
poikilo-;
reciproc-;
vari-.
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