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-ecious

-ecious is the alternative form of -oecious.

Meaning of -oecious

Suffix

-oecious

  1. Forms adjectives describing the arrangement of sexual organs.
  2. Forms adjectives describing the host of an organism.

Questions about -ecious

What is -ecious the alternative form of?
-ecious is the alternative form of -oecious.

Words near -ecious in the dictionary

  1. -dynia
  2. -e
  3. -e-
  4. -eal
  5. -ean
  6. -ecious
  7. -ectasis
  8. -ectomy
  9. -ed
  10. -edema
  11. -edst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: -ecious (page history and authors); -oecious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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