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Meaning of heterogonous | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Characterized by heterogony.
  2. Having offspring that are dissimilar to their parents.
  3. Having multiple origins.

Examples

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

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

heterograde heterographic heterogynous heteroheptameric heterohexameric heteroicous

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