remigrant
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]remigrant (plural remigrants)
- A migrant who returns to their former country.
- (zoology) An insect that migrates back to a previous host.
- 2012, A. F. G. Dixon, Aphid Ecology: An optimization approach, page 51:
- In host-alternating aphids the remigrants, which give birth to the mating females, are the first to arrive on the primary host […]
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[edit]remigrant