Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any specialized parasitic fungus which is able to infect its proper host under normal conditions: applied by Salmon to certain Erysiphaceæ. Compare
xenoparasite .
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- noun archaic, biology
Parasitic fungus which is capable of infectinghosts undernormalised conditions.
Etymologies
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Compound of œco- + parasite, from Ancient Greek: οἶκος (oikos, "house, residency") conjuncted with παράσιτος (parasitos, "one who eats at the table of another").
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