Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Heterocious

Heterocious , adjective

[Hetero- + Greek {not transcribed} house.]

(Botany) Passing through the different stages in its life history on an alternation of hosts, as the common wheat-rust fungus (Puccinia graminis), and certain other parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with autocious.

Also: Heteroecious