lipoxenousadj.
/lɪˈpɒksɪnəs/ Botany.
Deserting its host; said of certain parasitic fungi which after a time quit the plant which served as a host for them.
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1887 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Morphol. & Biol. Fungi 388, 496.
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liˈpoxeny n. the phenomenon of desertion of the ‘host’ by parasites.
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