HETEROLOGY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(biology) the lack of correspondence of apparently similar body parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("heterology" is a kind of...):

dissimilarity; unsimilarity (the quality of being dissimilar)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Derivation:

heterologic; heterological (not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin)

heterologous (derived from organisms of a different but related species)

heterologous (not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin)