Heteroecious

Definitions: Heteroecious

Heteroecious

Adjective

1. Of parasitic animals; spending different stages of the life cycle on different host species.

2. Of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species; "heteroecious fungi"; "heteroecious insects".

Specialty Definition: Heteroecious

A heteroecious parasite is one that requires at least two hosts. The primary host is the host in which the parasite spends its adult life; the other is the secondary host.

Heteroecious parasites include:

Gymnosporangium; the juniper/cedar is the primary host and the apple/pear/hawthorn is secondary

Rhyming with "Heteroecious"

Words rhyming with "heteroecious" (pronounced 'Het`er*[oe]"cious'): Artificious, Astucious, Atrocious, Audacious, Auspicious, Autoecious, Avaricious, Bibacious, Capacious, Capricious, Cilicious, Contumacious, Convicious, Delicious, Dicacious, Disgracious, Edacious, Efficacious, Extispicious, Fallacious, Feracious, Ferocious, fugacious, Fumacious, Furacious, Glacious, gracious, inauspicious, Incapacious, inefficacious, Ingracious, injudicious, Inofficious, judicious, Linguacious, loquacious, luscious, Malgracious, malicious, mendacious, Meracious, meretricious, minacious, Misgracious, monoecious, mordacious, Multiplicious, Multiscious, Obstetricious, Officious. (additional references)

Anagrams: Heteroecious

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-h-i-o-o-r-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: cheeriest, outechoes, reechiest, retouches.
	-4 letters: cerusite, cheerios, cheesier, cheroots, chestier, choosier, citreous, coteries, couthier, creosote, cutesier, esoteric, eucrites, heretics, icehouse, ichorous, isochore, isothere, ocherous, ochreous, outcries, outscore, rechoose, reechoes, scouther, shoetree, theories, theorise, touchers, touchier, trochees.
	-5 letters: cerites, cheerio, cheeros, cheroot, chooser, chouser, cithers, citrous, coesite, coheirs, coheres, cohorts, cooters, cooties, coterie, couters.
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