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heteroxenic

heteroxenic adjective: relating to soft corals of the genus Heteroxenia.

Adjective

heteroxenic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to soft corals of the genus Heteroxenia
    • However, as we mentioned previously, we believe that the model is applicable to understanding similar processes in most symbioses, including heteroxenic associations (including more than one species of host in the life cycle) [27 –29 ].2015 October 3, “Understanding Host-Switching by Ecological Fitting”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of heteroxenic

Heteroxenia + -ic

Questions about heteroxenic

What does heteroxenic mean?
Heteroxenic means relating to soft corals of the genus Heteroxenia.
What part of speech is heteroxenic?
Heteroxenic is an adjective.

Words near heteroxenic in the dictionary

  1. heterovalvar
  2. heterovalvate
  3. heterovariant
  4. heteroxanthin
  5. heteroxanthine
  6. heteroxenic
  7. heteroxenous
  8. heteroxeny
  9. heteroxylan
  10. heteroxylans
  11. heteroxylous

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