Having an unequal or different number of parts in corresponding structures, especially in plants.
From Greek 'hetero-' (different) and 'meros' (part) with Latin '-ous' suffix, used in botany to describe flowers with varying numbers of parts.
Some flowers break the rules—while most have matching numbers of petals and sepals, heteromerous flowers are the rebels with mismatched part counts.
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