Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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.
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Examples
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GHK Lall was a member of the diaspora, and is a remigrant.
Stabroek News Stabroek staff 2010
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Can 2. &c. in Angliam, Plaodente Orbe Britannico, remigrant.
The Nonconformist's Memorial: Being an Account of the Ministers, who Were Ejected Or Silenced ... 1775
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