Heteroecious

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of dependent organisms, spending portions of the life cycle on different types of hosts.
Adjective
  1. 1
    of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms
heteroecismalheteroxenousmetoeciousmetoeciousmetoxenous

Etymology

From hetero- + -oecious.

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