Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In bryology, having both male and female inflorescence on the same plant; monœcious. Three modifications are cladautœcious, goniautœcious, and rhizautœcious. Also written autoicous.
- In mycology, passing through all its stages of development on the same host, as certain species of the genus Puccinia.
Wiktionary
- adj. Pertaining to a fungus, most often a rust, completing its life cycle on one host.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Biol.) Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with
heterœcious .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host
Etymologies
- auto- + -oecious (Wiktionary)
- From auto- + Greek oikos, house; see weik-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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