heterogonous

heterogonous (comparative more heterogonous, superlative most heterogonous)

1. (botany) Characterized by heterogony.
2. Having offspring that are dissimilar to their parents.
   • 1917, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Volume 37:

     The Chermes not only pass through a heterogonism in five sparate generations, but one and the same species can live in related rows by the temporary suppression of the true heterogonous circles.

3. Having multiple origins.
   • 2016, Paul Cammell, Reinterpreting the Borderline, page 98:

     What underpins this is a complex, heterogonous, and to Freud, timeless, field of unconscious traces, drives, instincts, processes or, relatedly, Id.

4. Misspelling of heterogenous.

• heterogonously