English

Adjective

heterœcious ‎(comparative more heterœcious, superlative most heterœcious)

1. Obsolete form of heteroecious.
   • 1907, William Morton Wheeler in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume XXIII., page 29:

     The heterœcious character of the Atemeles, which are compelled twice during their life time to change their normal hosts, once in the spring when they migrate for reproductive purposes from Myrmica to Formica, to have their larva reared by the latter, and once in the summer or autumn, when they migrate from Formica to Myrmica for the purpose of hibernating, enables us to explain the greater active perfection of their symphily, their greater initiative towards the ants, and the close imitation of their behavior.