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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Heterosis

/hĕtˌ-ẽr-ōs'-əs/ · Het·e·ro·sis · IPA /hˌɛtərˈoʊsəs/
01 n. A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: “What is life to s…
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    A figure of speech by which one form of a noun, verb, or pronoun, and the like, is used for another, as in the sentence: “What is life to such as me?”(Rhet.)