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English → English (gcide) Definition: Heterosis Heterosis \Het`e*ro"sis\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? alteration, fr. ? other, different.] (Rhet.) 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?” --Aytoun. [1913 Webster]