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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Heterœcious

· Het·er·œ·cious · IPA
01 a. Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), a…
  1. 1.
    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.(Bot.)