heterocoelous

== English == === Alternative forms === heterocœlous (obsolete typography) === Etymology === From hetero- (“different”) +‎ -coelous (“hollow”). === Adjective === heterocoelous (not comparable) (biology) Relating to, or characteristic of syconoid sponges of the taxonomic group Heterocoela. (medicine) Relating to vertebrae with centra having saddle-shaped articulations. === References === “heterocoelous”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “heterocoelous”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.