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English
Noun
heterœcism (uncountable)
- (mycology) 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.
1881, Charles B. Plowright, Grevillea, volume X, page 34: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.
References
- heterœcism in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911