Autoecious Definition

ô-tēshəs
adjective
Passing the entire life cycle on one host, as certain parasites do, esp. rust fungi.
Webster's New World
Spending all stages of the life cycle on the same host. Used of parasites.
American Heritage Medicine

Pertaining to a fungus, most often a rust, completing its life cycle on one host.

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Origin of Autoecious

  • From auto– Greek oikos house weik-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • auto- +‎ -oecious

    From Wiktionary

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