heterogenic

Adjective

heterogenic (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to the genes of different species.
2. (rare) Relating to or involving (people, animals, things, etc, of) different kinds (genera), for example different sexes.
   • There is no question that the mail survey is "the most practical method for obtaining reasonably compatible data across a large geographic base, a large heterogenic group, and also a large sample size".1983, S. M. Al-Sabah, Development Planning in an Oil Economy and the Role of the Woman: The Case of Kuwait, London : Eastlords Pub.
   • Furthermore, being a woman composer is internally a heterogenic, multifaceted, and even conflicted process.2000, Pirkko Moisala, "Finland: The Woman Composer as Nomadic Subject", in Pirkko Moisala, Beverley Diamond, Music and Gender, University of Illinois Press, page 166
3. Characteristic of a different sex (especially of hypertrichosis or facial hair typical of a man but found on a woman).
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:heterogenic.