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Homogenous

Homogenous \Ho*mog"e*nous\, a. (Biol.) Having a resemblance in structure, due to descent from a common progenitor with subsequent modification; homogenetic; -- applied both to animals and plants. See Homoplastic.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
homogenous

erroneous for homogeneous.

Wiktionary
homogenous

a. 1 (context biology English) Having the same genetic structure; exhibiting homogeny 2 (context proscribed English) (alternative form of homogeneous English)

WordNet
homogenous

adj. all of the same or similar kind or nature; "a close-knit homogeneous group" [syn: homogeneous] [ant: heterogeneous]

Usage examples of "homogenous".

Second, passive biomaterials such as homogenous plastics and ceramics which do not actually insult the tissues of the body.

Thus, the achievement of meditative stabilization entails an exceptionally high density of homogenous moments of ascertaining consciousness.

If you start analyzing all the samples of Quenya that we now have, you will soon realize that they do not form a homogenous mass.

That's seriously hurting our ability to make full use of the new hardware, especially the compensators, since our squadrons are no longer homogenous.

Apart from the marine glue, flavoured with sherry and thickened with crushed biscuit, that began the feast, and a dwarfish fowl which Stephen carefully divided into four wizzened pieces that tasted of tar, and some of yesterday's dried peas, boiled in a cloth until they merged into a homogenous mass, it was exactly the same salt horse and biscuit that had nourished the gunroom, the midshipmen's berth, and the mess-deck a little earlier in the day.

And even if natural scientists of the time were aware of sperm as separate entities, rather than a homogenous substance, it occurred to me that they probably didn't have any idea what sperm actually did.

It was in fact a large loaf of ground mutton, recompressed into a slab in the ovine equivalent of hamburger, homogenous and broiling evenly on the vertical spit.

The benefit of this was to roughen up the edges of their word-perfect pronunciations and ground them in regional colloquialisms so that they didn't sound like a bunch of homogenous Euro-twats.

So far as Daniel could tell the region was a tidal flat with no features except for the homogenous forest, but for some reason the road curved back and forth like a snake's track.