heteronymous adjective. [hɛtǝ'rɒnɪmǝs] L17.
[Greek heterōnumos, formed as HETERONYM: see -OUS.]
1. Designating correlatives which are denoted by unlike or unrelated terms, as husband, wife. Cf. SYNONYMOUS. L17.

2. Having the character of a heteronym. L19.

3. Zoology. Of animal horns: such that the right horn has a left-handed spiral core and vice versa. E20.

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