remigrant

English

Etymology

re- +‎ migrant

Noun

remigrant (plural remigrants)

1. A migrant who returns to their former country.
2. (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 […]

Latin

Verb

remigrant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of remigrō