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“dixenous”
dixenic, dixenous (adjective) (not comparable))
In biology and parasitology, a mixed culture of one organism together with two other species: Linda read that a dixenic parasite's development takes place between two different kinds of hosts to complete its life cycle.
A dixenous parasite infects two species, and needs both to complete its entire life cycle.
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xeno-, xen-, -xenic, -xenism, -xenist, -xenous, -xeny
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