disharmonic

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Yet it’s also appropriate, a kind of disharmonic convergence.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2014

Voechting, experiments on grafting, 70; harmonic and disharmonic union, 70; on cells, 114, 116; on plasticity of plants, 117, 119; on grafting, 120.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar

These disharmonic shadows flitting in the room made a stir like the rubbing of dry straw or the hum of bees among clover stalks.

From Fraternity by Galsworthy, John

Nature brooks no delay, and the disharmonic organism must attune itself or perish.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Stoddard, Lothrop

Vöchting distinguishes as harmonic or disharmonic the modes of union between twig and stem, according to whether or no they reach the formation of functional unity.

From The Biological Problem of To-day Preformation Or Epigenesis? The Basis of a Theory of Organic Development by Hertwig, Oscar