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- Ancient Greek · derived fromκοντός“pole”
- English todayheterokont
From hetero- (“different”) + -kont (“flagellate”) from Ancient Greek κοντός (kontós, “pole”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
heterokont
Today it means: Having flagella of unequal length. Full definition →
Ancient Greek κοντός