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unsyˈmmetrical, a. (un-1 7.)
1755Johnson, Disproportionate, unsymmetrical. 1816R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 2) 207 A Crystal is said to be..Unsymmetrical, when two ranges of facets situated one above another, on each extremity, exhibit a want of symmetry. 1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 141 An imbricated calyx with..unsymmetrical flowers, definite pendulous ovules. 1893J. Tuckey Amphioxus 119 This is an unsymmetrical movement of the mesoblastic somites. Hence unsyˈmmetrically adv.
1755Johnson, Disproportionately, unsuitably, unsymmetrically. 1839–47Todd's Cycl. Anat. III. 603/1 These ganglia are disposed unsymmetrically throughout the body. 1879Spencer Data of Ethics i. §1. 4 The unsymmetrically-pierced disk of an eccentric. |