Hēt'er-ŏt'o-mōüs, a.

a. [Fr. hétérotome, from Gr. ἕτερος, other, and τόμος, a cut, τέμνειν, to cut.] Having a different cleavage; — applied to a species of the feldspar family in which the cleavage differs from that of common feldspar. Dana.