One who believes in the theory of spontaneous generation, or heterogenesis.

Of or pertaining to heterogenesis; heterogenetic.

Heterogenesis.

Characterized by heterogony.

The condition of having two or more kinds of flowers, different as to the length of their stamens and pistils.

Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.

That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger.

Having females very unlike the males in form and structure; -- as certain insects, the males of which are winged, and the females wingless.

Characterized by heterology; consisting of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; different; -- opposed to homologous; as, heterologous organs.

The absence of correspondence, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

A division of Coleoptera, having heteromerous tarsi.

Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are hom/morphous, but heteromerous.

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.

Heteromorphic.

The state or quality of being heteromorphic.

A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.

A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

Subject to the law of another.

Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; -- opposed to autonomy.

That which is heteronymous; a thing having a different name or designation from some other thing; -- opposed to homonym.

Having different names or designations; standing in opposite relations.

One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

See Heteroousian.

Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic.

That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy.

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.

Altrices.

One liable to the fault of heterophemy.

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.

An abnormal state of the voice.

Having leaves of more than one shape on the same plant.

An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition.

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone.

One of the Heteropoda. Heteropodous.

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.

Of or pertaining to the Heteropoda.

One of the Heteroptera.

A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anterior wings is thickened. See Hemiptera.

False optics.

One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).

A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: /What is life to such as me?/

An order of fishes, comprising the flounders, halibut, sole, etc., having the body and head asymmetrical, with both eyes on one side. Called also Heterosomata, Heterosomi.

Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.

Having styles of two or more distinct forms or lengths.

The condition of being heterostyled.

Relating to, or characterized by, heterotaxy.

Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, as, in botany, the deviation in position of the organs of a plant, from the ordinary or typical arrangement.

A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

A division of ciliated Infusoria, having fine cilia all over the body, and a circle of larger ones around the anterior end.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous.

Contempt; scorn.

A Cossack headman or general. The title of chief hetman is now held by the heir to the throne of Russia.

A genus of North American herbs with basal cordate or orbicular leaves and small panicled flowers.

A crag; a cliff; a glen with overhanging sides.

Variant of Huke.

A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

A heuristic method; a specific heuristic procedure.

In a heuristic manner; by using a heuristic method; by serving as a heuristic method; as, a heuristically guided search technique; a heuristically valuable theory.

A small genus of South American trees yielding latex. It includes the rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, originally found in South America, but now used for production of rubber world-wide.

The head.

A domestic servant; a retainer.

One who hews.

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

Felled, cut, or shaped as with an ax; roughly squared; as, a house built of hewn logs.

Having six stamens.

Having six hydrogen atoms or six radicals capable of being replaced or saturated by bases; -- said of acids; as, mellitic acid is hexabasic.

Having six capsules or seed vessels.

A series of six notes, with a semitone between the third and fourth, the other intervals being whole tones.

Having six atoms or radicals capable of being replaced by acids; hexatomic; hexavalent; -- said of bases; as, mannite is a hexacid base.

Having six-rayed spicules; belonging to the Hexactinellin/.

Belonging to the Hexactinellin/, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules.

The Anthozoa.

An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective.

Having six fingers or toes.

A series of six numbers.

See Hecdecane.

A plane figure of six angles.

Having six sides and six angles; six-sided.

In an hexagonal manner.

A hexagon.

A figure of six lines A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon. In Chinese literature, one of the sixty-four figures formed of six parallel lines (continuous or broken), forming the basis of the I Ching (Yih King), or /Book of Changes./

A Linn/an order of plants having six pistils.

Having six pistils.

In the form of a hexahedron; having six sides or faces.

A solid body of six sides or faces.

In six parts; in sixes.

Having six metrical feet, especially dactyls and spondees.

Consisting of six metrical feet.

One who writes in hexameters.

A Linn/an class of plants having six stamens.

Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms.

Having six angles or corners.

Having six petals.

Having six leaves or leaflets.

A collection of the Holy Scriptures in six languages or six versions in parallel columns; particularly, the edition of the Old Testament published by Origen, in the 3d century.

Having six feet. An animal having six feet; one of the Hexapoda.

The true, or six-legged, insects; insects other than myriapods and arachnids.

Having six feet; belonging to the Hexapoda.

Having six processes.

A poem consisting of six verses or lines.

Having six columns in front; -- said of a portico or temple. A hexastyle portico or temple.

The first six books of the Old Testament.

Having six atoms in the molecule. Having six replaceable radicals.

Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.

The essential radical, C16H33, of hecdecane.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hexdecyl or hecdecane; as, hexdecylic alcohol.

A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.

Same as Hexylene.

The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.

A hydrocarbon, C6H10, of the acetylene series, obtained artificially as a colorless, volatile, pungent liquid; -- called also hexoylene.

A solid having forty-eight equal triangular faces.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid.

an enzyme catalyzing the transfer of a phosphate residue from ATP to a hexose, as in the formation of glucose-6-phosphate from glucose.

A liquid hydrocarbon, C6H8, of the valylene series, obtained from distillation products of certain fats and gums.

Any member of a group of sugars containing six carbon atoms in the molecule. Some are widely distributed in nature, esp. in ripe fruits.

A univalent organic radical, C6H13-, regarded as the essential residue of hexane, and a related series of compounds.

A colorless, liquid hydrocarbon, C6H12, of the ethylene series, produced artificially, and found as a natural product of distillation of certain coals; also, any one several isomers of hexylene proper. Called also hexene.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hexyl or hexane; as, hexylic alcohol.

An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement.

The time of triumph and exultation; hence, joy, high spirits, frolicsomeness; wildness.