(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:08:42

Het`er*o*plas"tic (?), a. [Hetero- + -plastic.] Biol.

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

Haeckel.

 

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