heterophonous

Adjective

heterophonous (not comparable)

1. Heterophonic, pertaining to heterophony of musical (or, by extension, other) sounds.
   • Heterophonous wheezing sounds like many different musical notes and varies in intensity and pitch across different lung fields. Heterophonous wheezes occur in bronchiolitis, asthma, pulmonary edema, and pneumonia because this type of ...2013, Samuel M. Galvagno, Emergency Pathophysiology: Clinical Applications for Prehospital Care, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 276
2. Not homophonous; pronounced differently.
   • Constituents of different words as well as constituents of the same word may be heterophonous or homophonous. Clearly, by virtue of their constituents the words themselves become heterophonous or homophonous.2001, E. F. K. Koerner, A. J. Szwedek, Towards a History of Linguistics in Poland: From the Early Beginnings to the End of the Twentieth Century, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 295
   • Such effects were reproduced by Dijkstra et al. (1999) on homophonic (but not homographic) Dutch–English words (e.g. leaf, homophonous of the Dutch word lief -gentle-). […] English-Afrikaans bilinguals produced more errors and took longer to accept homophonous heterographic words (e.g. lake-lyk)...2009, Clare Wood, Vincent Connelly, Contemporary Perspectives on Reading and Spelling, Routledge, →ISBN, page 170