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Homogenous  adj.  (Biol.) Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.






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"Homogenous" Quotes from Famous Books



... not a homogenous mass. About one third of the bulk of the drop of water is made up of independent oxygen and hydrogen atoms interspersed through it, as any liquid is through this piece of blotting paper. And it has, and ...
— Ancient and Modern Physics • Thomas E. Willson

... inhabiting the western Burmese territories. Both these seem to furnish an equally fine pigment. As it can be obtained in unlimited quantity, it might be introduced into European trade, if the natives learn how to collect it in a state of purity, and make it up in homogenous masses in imitation of pipe gamboge, the finest Siam variety. It seems to possess more coloring matter, more resin and less gum than the ordinary gamboge of commerce. Gamboge owes its color to the fatty acid. ...
— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds



Words linked to "Homogenous" :   solid, unvarying, uniform, self-coloured, homogenised, self-colored, undiversified, same, heterogeneous, consistent



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