Heterogonous

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterized by heterogony.
  2. 2
    Having offspring that are dissimilar to their parents.

    "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."

  3. 3
    Having multiple origins.

    "What underpins this is a complex, heterogonous, and to Freud, timeless, field of unconscious traces, drives, instincts, processes or, relatedly, Id."

  4. 4
    Misspelling of heterogenous. alt-of, misspelling

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"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."

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