Usually means: Deviating from common rules, irregular.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. heteroclite: Merriam-Webster
  2. heteroclite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heteroclite: Collins English Dictionary
  4. heteroclite: Wordnik
  5. heteroclite: Wiktionary
  6. heteroclite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. heteroclite: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Heteroclite, heteroclite: Dictionary.com
  9. Heteroclite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. heteroclite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Heteroclite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. heteroclite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. heteroclite: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. heteroclite: FreeDictionary.org
  15. heteroclite: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heteroclite: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Heteroclite: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Heteroclite: Medical dictionary
  4. Heteroclite: Drug Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (heteroclite)

adjective:  (grammar) Irregularly declined or inflected.
adjective:  (dated) Deviating from the ordinary rule; eccentric, abnormal.
noun:  (grammar) An irregularly declined or inflected word.
noun:  (linguistics) A word whose etymological roots come from distinct, different languages or language groups.
noun:  A person who is unconventional; a maverick.

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