What it means
The beginning of words for things that differ from each other. Heterosexual means attracted to people of a different sex, heterogeneous means made of different parts, and heterozygous means having two different forms of a gene. Its opposite is homo-, which means same.
At a glance
| Also written | heter/o, heter- |
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Related terms
homo-
A word beginning that means same or alike.