heterogonous

comparative more heterogonous · superlative most heterogonous

1. biologyCharacterized by heterogony.
2. Having offspring that are dissimilar to their parents.

   The Chermes not only pass through a heterogonism in five sparate generations, but one and the same species can live in related rows by the temporary suppression of the true heterogonous circles.

   1917, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Volume 37

3. Having multiple origins.

   What underpins this is a complex, heterogonous, and to Freud, timeless, field of unconscious traces, drives, instincts, processes or, relatedly, Id.

   2016, Paul Cammell, Reinterpreting the Borderline, page 98

4. misspellingMisspelling of heterogenous.