But these animals are so odd and so heteroclite that this example, if it is authentic, would not be a decisive argument.
Celimene is of all species, and heteroclite above all; she is both mole and spider, she is sparrow and cantharide, she is cricket and adder.
Circular in rodents, transversal in the unique case of the hyena, a heteroclite animal, the vulva is longitudinal in all other mammifers.
They may well be classed with the singular or heteroclite instances; for in the whole system of things, they are rare and extraordinary.
In the seventh rank of prerogative instances, we will place singular instances, which we are also wont to call irregular or heteroclite (to borrow a term from the grammarians).