Usually means: Varying in form or declension.
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  1. heteroclitic: Merriam-Webster
  2. heteroclitic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heteroclitic: Collins English Dictionary
  4. heteroclitic: Wordnik
  5. heteroclitic: Wiktionary
  6. Heteroclitic, heteroclitic: Dictionary.com
  7. Heteroclitic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Heteroclitic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. heteroclitic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. heteroclitic: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Heteroclitic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Heteroclitic: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heteroclitic: Medical dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (heteroclitic)

adjective:  (linguistics) Irregular in inflection.
adjective:  (linguistics) In particular, in Indo-European studies: signifying a stem which alternates between more than one form when declined for grammatical case. Examples of heteroclitic noun stems in Proto-Indo-European include *wod-r/n- "water" (nominoaccusative *wódr; genitive *udnés; locative *udén) and *yékʷ-r/n- "liver" (nominoaccusative *yékʷr, genitive *ikʷnés).
adjective:  (microbiology) Pertaining to antibodies that react to a wide variety of antigens.
noun:  A heteroclitic noun.

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