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Word: Autoecious
Speech Type: Adjective
late 19th century; earliest use found in Sydney Vines (1849–1934), botanist. From auto- + -oecious, in sense 1 after German autoecisch
Of parasitic fungi (especially rusts and smuts): inhabiting the same host throughout their life.
Of a bryophyte or its inflorescence: having both male and female sexual organs (antheridia and archegonia), but on separate shoots; also called autoicous.
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