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Webster 1913 Edition

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Hetero-

-plastic

(Biol.)

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone.

Haeckel.

heteroplastic ‎(comparative more heteroplastic, superlative most heteroplastic)

(pathology) Of, or relating to heteroplasm
(surgery) Of a graft between individuals of different species
(botany) Of cells possessing plastids from two or more parent cells or organisms.