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heterœcism

heterœcism noun: development of different stages of the same growth on different host‐plants; production of the æcidiospores or conidia of a fungus on one host, and of its uredospores and teleutospores on another.

Noun

heterœcism (uncountable)

  1. Development of different stages of the same growth on different host‐plants; production of the æcidiospores or conidia of a fungus on one host, and of its uredospores and teleutospores on another.
    • Without entering upon the question generally, of whether most superstitions have not a strain, however meagre, of truth underlying them, this sentiment has not been without considerable influence in rendering us chary of accepting the heterœcism of Puccinia graminis.1881, Charles B. Plowright, Grevillea, volume X, page 34

Forms of heterœcism

alternative formheteroecism

Questions about heterœcism

What does heterœcism mean?
Heterœcism means development of different stages of the same growth on different host‐plants; production of the æcidiospores or conidia of a fungus on one host, and of its uredospores and teleutospores on another.
What part of speech is heterœcism?
Heterœcism is a noun.

Words near heterœcism in the dictionary

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

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