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heterœcious

heterœcious is the obsolete form of heteroecious.

Meaning of heteroecious

Adjective

heteroecious (comparative more heteroecious, superlative most heteroecious)

  1. Of dependent organisms, spending portions of the life cycle on different types of hosts.
    Antonyms:
    autoecious

Forms of heterœcious

comparativemore heterœcious
superlativemost heterœcious

Questions about heterœcious

What is heterœcious the obsolete form of?
Heterœcious is the obsolete form of heteroecious.

Words near heterœcious in the dictionary

  1. heterozygous
  2. heterozygousity
  3. heterozygously
  4. heterozygousness
  5. heterzygous
  6. heterœcious
  7. heterœcism
  8. hetfic
  9. Hetfield
  10. Hetfields
  11. hetgem

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heterœcious (page history and authors); heteroecious (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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