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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing or consisting of many different sorts or kinds of things; heterogeneous; composite: as, a polygenous mountain (one made up of different strata of rocks).
  • Of or pertaining to polygeny.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Consisting of, or containing, many kinds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Consisting of, or containing, many kinds; as, a polygenous mountain.

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