NOUN | attribute | heterology | (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts |
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Meaning | (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts. | |
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Category | biology, biological science | The science that studies living organisms |
Broader | dissimilarity, unsimilarity | The quality of being dissimilar / dissimilar |
Adjectives | heterologous | derived from organisms of a different but related species |
heterologous, heterologic, heterological | not corresponding / corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin |
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