a. (UN-1 7.)
1755. Johnson, Disproportionate, unsymmetrical.
1816. R. Jameson, Char. Min. (ed. 2), 207. A Crystal is said to be Unsymmetrical, when two ranges of facets situated one above another, on each extremity, exhibit a want of symmetry.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 141. An imbricated calyx with unsymmetrical flowers, definite pendulous ovules.
1893. Tucky, Amphioxus, 119. This is an unsymmetrical movement of the mesoblastic somites.
Hence Unsymmetrically adv.
1755. Johnson, Disproportionately, unsuitably, unsymmetrically.
183947. Todds Cycl. Anat., III. 603/1. These ganglia are disposed unsymmetrically throughout the body.
1879. Spencer, Data of Ethics, i. § 1. 4. The unsymmetrically-pierced disk of an eccentric.