anisomerous

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English

Etymology

From an- +‎ isomerous.

Adjective

anisomerous (not comparable)

  1. Having varied parts; nonuniform
    1. Varying in number or amount of parts.
      • 1868, Hugh Falconer, ‎Charles Murchison, Palæontological Memoirs and Notes of the Late Hugh Falconer, page 82:
        The Elephants with hypisomerous-ridged molars are divisible into the two natural groups, Stegodon and Loxodon; the anisomerous species form a third natural group, for which, as already explained, the term Euelephas is proposed.
      • 1881, Palaeontographical Society - Volume 43, page 77:
        As an example, in the members of the sub-genus Euelephas, and notably the Elephas primigenius and Elephas Asiaticus, the ciphers of whose molars, he states, are precisely alike in number, he formulates their ridges in upper and lower teeth thus:—4+8+12::12+16+24, showing that, with the exception of the first and ultimate true molars, the others increase by increments of 4, or, as he terms it, by an "anisomeroous mode of progression."
    2. (botany) Having the number of floral organs unequal.
      • 2019, Amram Eshel, Chingiz Alekperov, Dafna Langgut, and Israel Oren, “Pollen Morphology of the Genus Tamarix in Israel”, in Bilquees Gul, ‎Benno Böer, ‎M. Ajmal Khan, editor, Sabkha Ecosystems: Volume VI: Asia/Pacific, page 468:
        Tamarix flowers are anisomerous ( a flower having an unequal number of petals, stamens , or other floral parts). It is possible to find in one raceme anisomerous flowers with different numbers of sepals, petals, stamens, and so on, without any numerical correlation between the organs.
      • 2024, Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Flora of British India: Vol. I, page 573:
        Fertile stamens anisomerous or twice or thrice the number of the petals
      A plant with four petals and six stamens is anisomerous.
    3. Reflecting a nonuniform composition; indicative of differing parts.
      • 2006, Russian Journal of Marine Biology - Volume 32, Issues 1-3, page 8:
        In gravel and anisomerous sand (substrate type I), we found 25 species of nematodes dominated by M. paracircumscriptus and M. itoi; the dominating trophic assemblage was "predators" (2B, 43.2 %).
      • 2016, Olga Grushko, ‎Boris Ovsyannikov, ‎Viktor Ovchinnokov, Aluminum-Lithium Alloys, page 156:
        In forgings where the fracture is very anisomerous (Figure 6.33 , curve 2b), the grain faces are clearly expressed.
    4. Changing in a non-uniform manner; Having different parts change by different amounts.
      • 1935, National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volumes 21-22, page 5:
        Through these anisomerous changes the strongly benthonic body shrinks to seventy-five per cent of the length of the head shield.
      • 2006, Russian Journal of Marine Biology - Volume 32, Issues 1-3, page 8:
        In gravel and anisomerous sand (substrate type I), we found 25 species of nematodes dominated by M. paracircumscriptus and M. itoi; the dominating trophic assemblage was "predators" (2B, 43.2 %).
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