Meaning of heterœcism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Development of different stages of the same growth on different host‐plants; production of the æcidiospores or conidia of a fungus on one host, and of its uredospores and teleutospores on another.
   uncountable
2. Quality of being heteroecious.
   uncountable

Examples

“Without entering upon the question⟳ generally, of whether most superstitions have⟳ not a strain⟳, however meagre, of truth underlying them, this sentiment has not been without considerable influence⟳ in rendering us chary of accepting the heterœcism of Puccinia graminis.”

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