| 释义 |
lipoxenous, a. Bot.|lɪˈpɒksɪnəs|
[f. as prec. + ξέν-ος a host + -ous.]
Deserting its host; said of certain parasitic fungi which after a time quit the plant which served as a host for them. So liˈpoxeny, the phenomenon of desertion of the ‘host’ by parasites.
1887Garnsey tr. De Bary's Fungi 388, 496. |