homogonous

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek

Adjective

homogonous (not comparable)

1. (botany) Having all the flowers alike in terms of the stamens and pistils.
   • 1907, Asa Gray, Gray's Botanical Text-book, page 235:

     In Hottonia, a Primulaceous genus of two species, the European one has heterogonous dimorphism for cross-fertilization: the American one has homogonous showy flowers with only the general chance for intercrossing, and earlier flowers which are cleistogamous for self-fertilization.

2. Existing on a continuum; Able to be transformed one into another by means of continuous change.
   • 1982, Philip P. Wiener, Leibniz Selections, page 204:

     Time and an instant, space and a point, boundary and the bounded, are not homogeneous, but nevertheless cognate or "homogonous".

   • 2011, Jiayan Zhang, One and Many, page 35:

     This concept of "change as homogonous variation” is arguably the most profound and most problematic for Plato.

Related terms

• homogeneous