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heterogeneous (adj.)
1620s, from Medieval Latin
heterogeneus
, from Greek
heterogenes
, from
heteros
"different" (see
hetero-
) +
genos
"kind, gender, race stock" (see
genus
). Earlier in same sense was
heterogeneal
(c. 1600).