heterogynous

[het-uh-roj-uh-nuhs]

adjective Zoology.

having females of two different kinds, one sexual and the other abortive or neuter, as ants.

Origin:
1850–55; hetero- + -gynous

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warm-blooded vertebrate with feathers, wings, scaly legs and beak which bear young in shelled eggs

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heterogynous (ˌhɛtəˈrɒdʒɪnəs)

—*adj*
	(of ants, bees, etc) having two types of female, one fertile and the other infertile

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