Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Heterodromous

Heterodromous , adjective

[Hetero- + Greek {not transcribed} to run.]

1.
(Botany) Having spirals of changing direction. — Gray
2.
(Mechanics) Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.