ADJECTIVE
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of parasites; passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species
heteroecious insects
heteroecious fungi
How To Use heteroecious In A Sentence
- Puccinia gladioli is a heteroecious rust of quarantine significance for the U.S.
- heteroecious insects
- This allows rapid asexual spread during a single growing season and also enables a heteroecious species to persist on one host, even when its other host is not present.
- Most heteroecious aphids have just one primary and one secondary host.
- The other Chrysomyxa needle rusts are heteroecious and require more than one host to complete their life cycles.
- Control of a heteroecious rust will involve two hosts and their proximity to each other.
- heteroecious fungi
