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ecize

ecize verb: of a plant: to become established in a habitat.

Verb

ecize (third-person singular simple present ecizes, present participle ecizing, simple past and past participle ecized)

  1. (intransitive, rare) Of a plant: to become established in a habitat.
    • Presumably, it was introduced from South America in 1884 at the Cotton Centennial Exposition held at New Orleans, Louisiana. The plant ecizes readily in nearly all natural […]1946, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, volumes 27-30, page 14

Forms of ecize

third-person singular presentecizes
present participleecizing
past participleecized
pastecized
alternative formoecize
alternative formecise
alternative formoecise

Questions about ecize

What does ecize mean?
Ecize means of a plant: to become established in a habitat.
What part of speech is ecize?
Ecize is a verb.
What is the past tense of ecize?
The past tense of ecize is ecized.

Words near ecize in the dictionary

  1. ecilop
  2. ecipramidil
  3. ECIS
  4. ecitonine
  5. ecitonines
  6. ecize
  7. ecized
  8. ecizes
  9. ecizing
  10. ECJ
  11. Eck

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