Meanings
verbecize (third-person singular simple present ecizes, present participle ecizing, simple past and past participle ecized)
present singular third person ecizes · participle present ecizing · participle past ecized · past ecized · alternative oecize · alternative ecise · alternative oecise
- intransitiverarebiologyOf a plant: to become established in a habitat.
Presumably, it was introduced from South America in 1884 at the Cotton Centennial Exposition held at New Orleans, Louisiana. The plant ecizes readily in nearly all natural […]
1946, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, volumes 27-30, page 14
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