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Homoecious

Definition: Homoecious

Homoecious

Adjective

1. Of parasitic animals such as tapeworms or some beetles; having the same host during the entire life cycle.

2. Used of parasitic animals that complete the life cycle on a single host; "homoecious tapeworms"; "a homoecious beetle that is parasitic in the nest of an ant".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Antonym: heteroecious (adj). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Homoecious

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-m-o-o-o-s-u"

-3 letters: echoism, mooches, mouches.

-4 letters: cesium, chemos, chimes, choose, chouse, comose, comous, miches, miscue, muches, mucose, ouches, schmoe, smooch.

-5 letters: chemo, chime, chose, chums, cohos, comes, cosie, cuish, echos, hemic, hocus, hoise, homes, homos, house, humic, meous, mesic, miche, mooch, moose, mouch, moues, mouse, music, ohmic, osmic, schmo.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-m-o-o-o-s-u"
 

+5 letters: dichotomousness, ethnomusicology.

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Alternative Orthography: Homoecious


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 6F 6D 6F 65 63 69 6F 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101111 01101101 01101111 01100101 01100011 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

H o m o e c i o u s

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 006D 006F 0065 0063 0069 006F 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42817981716975818785

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