Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A parthenogenetic insect which, while born upon a different kind of plant from that upon which its parent was born, afterward returns to a plant of the kind that was the home of its parent. See emigrant, 2.
Examples
“GHK Lall was a member of the diaspora, and is a remigrant.”
“Can 2. &c. in Angliam, Plaodente Orbe Britannico, remigrant.”
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