heteromorphic
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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.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
Organic development is not like crystallisation; it is heteromorphic crystallisation, so to speak.
From Herbert Spencer by Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur)
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.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
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