Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
of parasites;
passing through different stages of the life cycle on different host species;
- Example: "heteroecious fungi"- Example: "heteroecious insects"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Heteroecious \Het`er*[oe]"cious\, a. [Hetero- + Gr. ? house.]
(Bot.)
Passing through the different stages in its life history on
an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus
(Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi; --
contrasted with aut[oe]cious. -- Het`er*[oe]"cism, n.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
heteroecious
adj 1: of parasites; passing through different stages of the
life cycle on different host species; "heteroecious
fungi"; "heteroecious insects" [ant: autoecious,
homoecious]