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Heterology
Translation of "heterology" into Russian
heterology
Noun
heterology
heterologies pl
Heterology is the study of the differences between organisms.
Гетерология — это изучение различий между организмами.
Definitions
heterology
Noun
The state or relation of anatomical parts, organs, or biological molecules that are fundamentally different in structure or evolutionary origin; the absence of homology.
Comparative anatomists study the heterology of vertebrate limbs to trace evolutionary divergence.
In logic and linguistics, the property of a word or phrase that does not describe itself.
The adjective "polysyllabic" is heterological because it has more than one syllable.