heterogonous

English[edit]

heterogonous (comparative more heterogonous, superlative most heterogonous)

(botany) Characterized by heterogony.
Having offspring that are dissimilar to their parents.
- 1917, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Volume 37:
  The Chermes not only pass through a heterogonism in five sparate generations, but one and the same species can live in related rows by the temporary suppression of the true heterogonous circles.
Having multiple origins.
- 2016, Paul Cammell, Reinterpreting the Borderline, page 98:
  What underpins this is a complex, heterogonous, and to Freud, timeless, field of unconscious traces, drives, instincts, processes or, relatedly, Id.
Misspelling of heterogenous.