Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A parasitic fungus which is able to infect a certain host-plant only when that host is wounded or otherwise injured. Compare
œoparasite .
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- noun An
ectoparasite that becomespathogenic only when thehost is weakened or injured
Etymologies
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From xeno- + parasite
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