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Meaning of HETEROMORPHIC

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Het`er*o*mor"phic\, a. [Hetero- + Gr. ? form.]
(Biol.)
Deviating from the normal, perfect, or mature form; having
different forms at different stages of existence, or in
different individuals of the same species; -- applied
especially to insects in which there is a wide difference of
form between the larva and the adult, and to plants having
more than one form of flower.
 
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Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: Of two or more distinct forms.
 

 

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