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Heteroploid
- noun - (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species
Heteroscian
- - One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).
Heterospory
- noun - the development of both microspores and megaspores
Heterotheca
- noun - genus of yellow-flowered North American herbs
Heterotroph
- noun - an organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition
Hexeikosane
- - A hydrocarbon, C26H54, resembling paraffine; -- so called because each molecule has twenty-six atoms of carbon.
Hexenbesens
- noun - an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance
Hibernating
- verb - be in an inactive or dormant state
- in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation; "dormant buds"; "a hibernating bear"; "torpid frogs"
- sleep during winter; "Bears must eat a lot of food before they hibernate in their caves"