Meanings
- not comparablebiologyHaving all the flowers alike in terms of the stamens and pistils.
In Hottonia, a Primulaceous genus of two species, the European one has heterogonous dimorphism for cross-fertilization: the American one has homogonous showy flowers with only the general chance for intercrossing, and earlier flowers which are cleistogamous for self-fertilization.
1907, Asa Gray, Gray's Botanical Text-book, page 235 - not comparableExisting on a continuum; able to be transformed one into another by means of continuous change.
This concept of "change as homogonous variation” is arguably the most profound and most problematic for Plato.
2011, Jiayan Zhang, One and Many, page 351 more example
Time and an instant, space and a point, boundary and the bounded, are not homogeneous, but nevertheless cognate or "homogonous".
1982, Philip P. Wiener, Leibniz Selections, page 204
Origin
Ancient Greek
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