HETEROMEROUS

Definitions: HETEROMEROUS

HETEROMEROUS

Adjective

1. Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles.

2. Having the femoral artery developed as the principal artery of the leg; -- said of certain birds, as the cotingas and pipras.

3. With the parts not corresponding in number.

4. Unrelated in chemical composition, though similar or indentical in certain other respects; as, borax and augite are homoemorphous, but heteromerous.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "HETEROMEROUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Note: Heteromerous \Het`er*om"er*ous\, adjective. [See Heteromera.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: HETEROMEROUS

Domain	Definitions
Science	Having mycobiont and photobiont components in well-defined layers, with the photobiont in a more or less distinct zone between the upper cortex and the medulla. (references)
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Rhyming with "HETEROMEROUS"

Words rhyming with "HETEROMEROUS" (pronounced 'Het`er*om"er*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references)

Anagrams: HETEROMEROUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-m-o-o-r-r-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: rheometers.
	-3 letters: orometers, outhomers, reremouse, rheometer, threesome.
	-4 letters: mouthers, murthers, orometer, outhomer, reroutes, resmooth, restroom, shoetree, smoother, theorems.
	-5 letters: emeutes, emoters, heteros, hooters, hurters, meeters, meteors, mooters, mothers, mouther, murther, oestrum, rehouse, remeets, remorse, remoter, remotes, reroute, reshoot, restore, resumer, rhetors, roomers, rooster, rooters, rostrum, rouster, routers, sheerer, sheeter, sheroot, shooter, shorter, shouter, smother.
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