hospedante
Spanish, noun/ospeˈdante/
hospedante is spelled H-O-S-P-E-D-A-N-T-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish, the 178,154th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Hospedante is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “host (cell or organism which harbors another organism)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “el mesonero en la relación de parasitismo Por ejemplo:Los hongos causantes de pudrición deben alcanzar la…”.
What does hospedante mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehost (cell or organism which harbors another organism)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. el mesonero en la relación de parasitismo Por ejemplo:Los hongos causantes de pudrición deben alcanzar la madera del árbol hospedante para colonizarla
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of hospedante
- hospedantes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce hospedante?
- /ospeˈdante/
- [os.peˈð̞ãn̪.t̪e]
- [ospeˈð̞ãn̪t̪e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to hospedante
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is hospedante in Spanish?
hospedante appears about once in every 24 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).