Definition of Autoecious

1. Adjective. Of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire life cycle on a single host. "Autoecious rust fungi"

Exact synonyms: Homoecious
Antonyms: Heteroecious

Definition of Autoecious

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Autoecious

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Autoecious

1. Term used to describe a parasite that uses only one host for its lifecycle. Compare: heteroecious. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Autoecious

autodidactism
autodidacts
autodiegetic
autodigestion
autodigestive
autodiploid
autodiscovery
autodocking
autodrainage
autodrome
autodromes
autodynamic
autodyne
autodynes
autoecholalia
autoecious (current term)
autoeciously
autoecism
autoecisms
autoed
autoencoder
autoencoders
autoenrollment
autoepistemic
autoerotisms

Literary usage of Autoecious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"If a parasitic fungus has but a single host in its life history, it is called autoecious, while if different stages occur habitually on different hosts, ..."

2. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"This is an autoecious lepto- form as shown by ... restricted the genus Chrysomyxa to include only the abort cycle autoecious forms and established ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"... Davis and Johnson at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December, 1916. They showed this rust to be autoecious also, ..."

4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"All of the species, so far as known, are autoecious, although the full life history has been determined for only a few. There are a number of unconnected ..."

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