Heteroecious Definition
hĕtə-rēshəs
adjective
Living as a parasite on first one species of host and then another.
Webster's New World
Spending different stages of the life cycle on different, usually unrelated hosts. Used of parasites.
American Heritage Medicine
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Origin of Heteroecious
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hetero– Greek oikiā house weik-1 in Indo-European roots –ous
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
hetero- + -oecious
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