heterochromous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hetero- + chromo- + -ous.
Adjective
[edit]heterochromous (not comparable)
- (botany) Having the central florets of a flower head of a different colour from those of the circumference.
- Having each part colored by a color that is distinct from the colors of all other parts.
- 2010, Bin Xiong, Zhongyi Zheng, Graph Theory: In Mathematical Olympiad And Competitions, page 96:
- A triangle is heterochromous if and only if its three angles are heterochromous angles.
- Having heterochromia.
- 2008, Hans-Walter Schmuhl, The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics, 1927-1945, page 384:
- The parallel account suggests that several prison physicians were occupied with the autopsies of (twin) children with heterochromous eyes from the “Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau – and there are additional indications that point in this direction.