Defn: Heteromorphic.
HETEROMYARIA
Het`e*ro*my*a"ri*a, n. pl. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A division of bivalve shells, including the marine mussels, in which the two adductor muscles are very unequal. See Dreissena, and Illust. under Byssus.
HETERONEREIS
Het`e*ro*ne*re"is, n. Etym: [NL. See Hetero-, and Nereis.] (Zoöl.)
Defn: A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of
Nereis.
Note: In this state the head and its appendages are changed in form, the eyes become very large; more or less of the parapodia are highly modified by the development of finlike lobes, and branchial lamellæ, and their setæ become longer and bladelike.
HETERONOMOUS
Het`er*on"o*mous, a. Etym: [Hetero- + Gr. no`mos law.]
Defn: Subject to the law of another. Krauth-Fleming.
HETERONOMY
Het`er*on"o*my, n.
1. Subordination or subjection to the law of another; political subjection of a community or state; — opposed to autonomy.