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"text": "heterogamous is in which a plant has male and female flowers, heterochromatic is having more than one colour, heterogender is involving people with different genders, heteroglossia is the coexistence of distinct linguistic varieties",
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"text": "heteroalkene is any analogue of an alkene in which a doubly bonded carbon atom is replaced by a heteroatom, heteroaddition is any addition reaction that introduces a heteroatom, heterofullerene is any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom, heteroaromatic is having the characteristics of an aromatic compound whilst having at least one non-carbon atom in the ring",
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"text": "heterofunctionalization is any reaction in which two different functional groups are added at the same time, heterofibril is a fibril composed of two or more types of collagen, heterodimeric is produced from two similar but different monomers",
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"text": "heterochrome is of different colors, heterocladic is relating to branches of different arteries, heteroexchange is the exchange of different entities (eg acidic and basic amino acids, heterocoordination is coordination between different metal atoms",
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"word": "heterobinuclear"
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"word": "heterocracy"
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"word": "cisheteropatriarchy"
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"word": "heterobiography"
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"word": "heterofertilization"
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"word": "heterocytotropic"
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"word": "heterocoagulation"
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"word": "heterodiegetic"
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"word": "heterocephalous"
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"word": "heterograft"
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"word": "heterogangliate"
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"text": "heterocentric is having a heterosexual bias or basis, heteroamorous is characterized by love with another of the opposite sex; heteroromantic, heterofemale is a woman who is heterosexual",
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"text": "heteroadministered is administered by a clinician on behalf of a patient, heterobiography is biography written by another person (not autobiography), heterocentric is focused on other people (as opposed to the self), heteroencapsidation is the encapsidation of the genetic material of one type of virus with the coat protein of another",
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"text": "heterodromous is spiralling in opposite directions on a stem or branch, heterofacial is on opposite faces, heterodirectional is that moves or operates in the opposite direction as another, heterochiral is reversed (as a mirror image), but otherwise identical",
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"text": "heterogenetic is of a disease: produced by infection from outside the body, heterocephaly is the appointment of the governing body by an outside authority, heterodiegetic is of or relating to a narrator that does not take part in the plot",
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"sense": "other",
"word": "гетеро-"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "other",
"word": "iol-"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "other",
"word": "hetero-"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "other",
"word": "hetero-"
}
],
"word": "hetero-"
}
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