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Heterozygote
- noun - (genetics) an organism having two different alleles of a particular gene and so giving rise to varying offspring
Heterozygous
- adjective - having dissimilar alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci; "heterozygous for eye color"
Hexacapsular
- - Having six capsules or seed vessels.
Hexametrical
- - Consisting of six metrical feet.
Hexaphyllous
- - Having six leaves or leaflets.
Hibernaculum
- - A winter bud, in which the rudimentary foliage or flower, as of most trees and shrubs in the temperate zone, is protected by closely overlapping scales.
Hibernations
- noun - cessation from or slowing of activity during the winter; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals
- the act of retiring into inactivity; "he emerged from his hibernation to make his first appearance in several years"
- the torpid or resting state in which some animals pass the winter
Hibernianism
- - An idiom or mode of speech peculiar to the Irish.
Hiccough Nut
- noun - ornamental African shrub or climber with red flowers
- ornamental red-flowering African shrub or climber