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heterœcious
CIDE DICTIONARY
heterœcious, a. [Hetero- + Gr. house.].
Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis ), and certain other parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with autœcious . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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