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remigrant

remigrant noun: a migrant who returns to their former country.

Noun

remigrant (plural remigrants)

  1. A migrant who returns to their former country.
  2. An insect that migrates back to a previous host.
    • In host-alternating aphids the remigrants, which give birth to the mating females, are the first to arrive on the primary host […]2012, A. F. G. Dixon, Aphid Ecology: An optimization approach, page 51

Forms of remigrant

pluralremigrants

Origin of remigrant

From re- + migrant.

Questions about remigrant

What does remigrant mean?
Remigrant means a migrant who returns to their former country.
What part of speech is remigrant?
Remigrant is a noun.
What is the plural of remigrant?
The plural of remigrant is remigrants.

Words near remigrant in the dictionary

  1. remifentanyl
  2. remiform
  3. remige
  4. remiges
  5. remigial
  6. remigrant
  7. remigrants
  8. remigrate
  9. remigrated
  10. remigrates
  11. remigrating

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