Crossword-Solution: HETEROMORPHIC
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| Heteromorphic | a. | Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having different forms at different stages of existence, or in different individuals of the same species; -- applied especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having more than one form of flower. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with HETEROMORPHIC (5)
Red cowslip by variation has become non-dimorphic, and with this change of structure has become much more productive of seed than even the heteromorphic union of the common cowslip.
The occurrence of heteromorphic unions renders it necessary to keep in mind that plants hermaphrodite as to structure are by no means necessarily so as to function.
But though the Homomorphic insects do not pass through such striking changes of form as the Heteromorphic, and are active throughout life, still it was until within the last few years generally (though erroneously) considered, that in them, as in the Heteromorpha, the life fell into four distinct periods; those of (1) the egg, (2) the larva, characterized by the absence of wings, (3) the pupa with imperfect wings, and (4) the imago, or perfect insect.
Van Duyne spoke of the double and single head of the latter kind which he obtained as heteromorphic structures in Loeb’s use of the term.
Even if it should prove true that a single head may develop exactly in the angle itself, and belong to both sides, it can be interpreted by an extension of the same principle.[65] The position of this median head turned backward suggests an obvious comparison with the production of the heteromorphic head in _Planaria lugubris_, but a closer examination will show, I think, that the two cases are different.