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heteroecious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
het-eroe-cious
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of dependent organisms, spending portions of the life cycle on different types of hosts.

Etymology

From hetero- + -oecious.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more heteroecious (comparative) most heteroecious (superlative) heterœcious (alternative) heteroicous (alternative)

Derived Forms

heteroeciously

Synonyms

heteroecismal heteroxenous metoecious metoxenous

Antonyms

autoecious

Questions

What does heteroecious mean?
Of dependent organisms, spending portions of the life cycle on different types of hosts.
Where does heteroecious come from?
From hetero- + -oecious.

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