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ecizing

ecizing is the present participle and gerund of ecize.

Meaning of ecize

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

Questions about ecizing

What is ecizing the present participle and gerund of?
Ecizing is the present participle and gerund of ecize.

Words near ecizing in the dictionary

  1. ecitonine
  2. ecitonines
  3. ecize
  4. ecized
  5. ecizes
  6. ecizing
  7. ECJ
  8. Eck
  9. ecka
  10. Eckankar
  11. Eckardt point

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