Remigrant

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A migrant who returns to their former country.
  2. 2
    An insect that migrates back to a previous host.

    "In host-alternating aphids the remigrants, which give birth to the mating females, are the first to arrive on the primary host […]"

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"In host-alternating aphids the remigrants, which give birth to the mating females, are the first to arrive on the primary host […]"

Etymology

From re- + migrant.

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