homogenous
adjUK /həˈmɒd͡ʒɪnəs/ · US /həˈmɑd͡ʒɪnəs/
Etymology From homo- + gene + -ous.
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Biology, Natural sciences Having the same genetic structure; exhibiting homogeny.
- It is quite possible to have, on the one hand, developmental homogeny between parts which are not ancestrally homogenous, and, on the other, to have ancestral homogeny between parts which are not developmentally homogenous.1870 August, St. George Mivart, “On the Use of the Term “Homology.” ”, in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History [Fourth series], volume 6, number 32, page 116:
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Alternative Alternative form of homogeneous (“having the same composition”).
- A term coined by the French New Right intellectual, Alain de Benoist, ethnopluralism stipulates the “equivalency of homogenous peoples in their indigenous territories.”2021, Christian Joppke, Neoliberal Nationalism: Immigration and the Rise of the Populist Right, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 47:
- Derived terms
- homogenous function, homogenously, homogenous polynomial, Homogocene, inhomogenous, multihomogenous, nonhomogenous