Autoecious

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Autoecious \Au*t[oe]"cious\, a. [Auto- + Gr. ? house.] (Biol.)
     Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain
     parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with {heter[oe]cious}.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  autoecious
       adj : of parasites especially rust fungi; completing the entire
             life cycle on a single host; "autoecious rust fungi"
             [syn: {homoecious}] [ant: {heteroecious}]