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Webster 1913 Edition

Heterosis

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Hetˊe-ro′sis

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Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] alteration, fr. [GREEK] other, different.]
(Rhet.)
A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: “What is life to such as me?”
Aytoun.

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