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HETEROLOGY

Dictionary entry overview: What does heterology mean?

• HETEROLOGY (noun)
The noun HETEROLOGY has 1 sense:

1. (biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts

Familiarity information: HETEROLOGY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• HETEROLOGY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("heterology" is a kind of...):

dissimilarity; unsimilarity (the quality of being dissimilar)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

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