Meanings
- not comparablebiologyHaving the central florets of a flower head of a different colour from those of the circumference.
- not comparableHaving each part colored by a color that is distinct from the colors of all other parts.
A triangle is heterochromous if and only if its three angles are heterochromous angles.
2010, Bin Xiong, Zhongyi Zheng, Graph Theory: In Mathematical Olympiad And Competitions, page 96 - not comparableHaving heterochromia.
The parallel account suggests that several prison physicians were occupied with the autopsies of (twin) children with heterochromous eyes from the “Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau – and there are additional indications that point in this direction.
2008, Hans-Walter Schmuhl, The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, 1927-1945, page 384
Origin
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