heterotic
heterotic adjective: of or pertaining to heterosis.
Adjective
heterotic (comparative more heterotic, superlative most heterotic)
- Of or pertaining to heterosis.
- An instructive example of a heterotic individual is ʽThe Toast of Botswana’. The Toast is a cross between a female goat and a male sheep.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 159
- Describing a hybrid form of string theory (See Heterotic string theory on Wikipedia)
Noun
heterotic (plural heterotics)
- A hybrid organism of this kind.
heterotic meaning in Tamil
heterotic in Tamil
- இதரத்துவ
Forms of heterotic
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more heterotic |
| superlative | most heterotic |
| Noun | |
| plural | heterotics |
Origin of heterotic
From hetero- + -otic.
Words formed from heterotic
Words that rhyme with heterotic
- exotic
- chaotic
- hypnotic
- sclerotic
- homoerotic
- neurotic
- quixotic
- antibiotic
- asymptotic
- biotic
- despotic
- dicrotic
31 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- ekpyrotic
- idiotic
- narcotic
- Nilotic
- probiotic
- semiotic
- symbiotic
- amniotic
- anadiplotic
- aponeurotic
- aquatic
- aryepiglottic
- autoerotic
- epiglottic
- erotic
- extraglottic
- glottic
- homeotic
- infraglottic
- intraglottic
- miotic
- osmotic
- paraglottic
- periglottic
- polyglottic
- psittacotic
- subglottic
- supraglottic
- thyroepiglottic
- transglottic
- unhypnotic
Questions about heterotic
- What does heterotic mean?
- Heterotic means of or pertaining to heterosis.
- What is heterotic in Tamil?
- Heterotic in Tamil is இதரத்துவ. See Heterotic meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is heterotic?
- Heterotic can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near heterotic in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: heterotic (page history and authors); heterotic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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