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Definitions of parasitism in various dictionaries:
noun - the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
The characteristic behavior or mode of existence of a parasite or parasitic population.
Parasitosis.
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| It's consumed by airborne soldier, NCO, taking advantage of host |
| Italian city not quite maintaining already disagreeable relationship with host |
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| Nov 18 2018 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
| Jan 6 2013 The Telegraph - Cryptic |
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| bParasitismb is a relationship between two things in which one of them (the parasite) benefits from or lives off of the other, like fleas on your dog. |
| the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage) |
| the relationship that exists between parasites |
| The characteristic behavior or mode of existence of a parasite or parasitic population. |
| Parasitosis. |
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In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the broomrapes. There are six major parasitic strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), trophically transmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation. * Like predation, parasitism is a type of consumer-resource interaction, but unlike predators, parasites, with the exceptio |