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remigrants

remigrants is the plural of remigrant.

Meaning of remigrant

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

Questions about remigrants

What is remigrants the plural of?
Remigrants is the plural of remigrant.

Words near remigrants in the dictionary

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

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