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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having all stages of a life cycle occurring on the same host.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In bryology, having both male and female inflorescence on the same plant; monœcious. Three modifications are cladautœcious, goniautœcious, and rhizautœcious. Also written autoicous.
  2. In mycology, passing through all its stages of development on the same host, as certain species of the genus Puccinia.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Pertaining to a fungus, most often a rust, completing its life cycle on one host.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. (Biol.) Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterœcious.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host

Etymologies

  1. auto- + -oecious (Wiktionary)
  2. 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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