heterogeny noun. [hɛtǝ'rɒdʒǝni] M17.
[In sense 1 app. from HETEROGENE + -Y³; in senses 2 and 3 from HETERO- + -GENY.]
1. Heterogeneousness. Only in M17.

2. A heterogeneous collection or group. M19.

3. Biology.
a. Spontaneous generation. M19.
b. the alternation of generations, esp. of a sexual and a parthenogenetic generation. L19.

■ heterogenist noun a supporter of the hypothesis of spontaneous generation L19.

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