heter-, hetero-

The state of being sexually attracted mainly to the opposite sex: Jim read a book about heterosexuality and found lots of answers to his questions regarding his romantic feelings towards a nice girl in his class at school.

A physical disorder of the sense of smell in which the odor perceived is not in accord with the stimulus or whatever is producing it: During his class in cooking, Tom realized that he couldn't taste sugar like the others in class, and after seeing his doctor about this, he was told that he had a condition called heterosmia.

In zoology or ichthyology, having a body deviating from the normal type: Flat fish, are considered to be heterosomatous in that their bodies have two asymmetrical.sides.

In genetics: a sex chromosome; heterochromosome: In her biology class, Judy learned that a heterosome was responsible for the determination of being a male or a female person.

Pertaining to the group of teleost fish; heterosomatous: Susan learned about heterosomous fish, like the flat fish, that had abnormal or asymmetrical body types.

In meteorology, the upper of two portions of the atmosphere: The heterosphere is distinguished by the general homogeneity of its composition and begins at 80 to 100 kilometers above the Earth.

It closely coincides with the ionosphere and the thermosphere, and is characterized by variation in composition and mean molecular weight of constituent gases.

In botany, referring to the production of two different kinds of spores: Seeds of plants,, club mosses, and some kinds of ferns can be heterosporous because they produce megaspores and microspores.

In botany, the presence of more than one type of stamen in the same flower: In class, Mr. Bloom talked about heterostemony and he asked his students to find a flower that had more than just one kind of stamen, although most flowers could have many stamens, but all of the same kind.

In psychology, a proposal, recommendation, hint, etc. that has its origin outside a person's mind: A heterosuggestion,or in other words hypnosis,is received from another person.

Heterosuggestion is the opposite of autosuggestion.

An odd or different arrangement of organs or parts of the body in relation to each other: A heterotaxia is an anomalous (abnormal) placement or transposition of viscera.

A heterotaxia is an an irregular or strange arrangement of parts or elements, for example, in geological strata, body parts, etc.

Referring to an abnormal or structural arrangement: When Judy had a dentist's appointment, she was told that she had a condition of a heterotaxic placement of her teeth in which she had more than the normal number of molars.

An odd and unexpected arrangement or structure: Examples of heterotaxis can be the constituents of a rock or the organs of a body.

Heterotaxis: Mary read about heterotaxy as being the uncommon and strange formation or placement of internal organs in comparison to one another.

In botany, in respect to algae and fungi, pertaining to the production of female and male structures of reproduction in different plants: In botany class, Lynn learned about the heterothallic formations of two mating types that act as male and female, as opposed to one self-fertile individual.

In botany, the situation in which female and male reproductive organs exist on separate or dissimilar thalli: In Saly's book on botany, she read about heterothallism as the condition of female and male life-giving organs which were present on various vegetative body of lichen, algae, and fungi, that were undifferentiated