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Parasitism   Listen
noun
Parasitism  n.  
1.
The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite. "Court parasitism."
2.
(Bot. & Zool.) The state of being parasitic.





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"Parasitism" Quotes from Famous Books



... be said of all the remarkable phenomena which we perceive in the economy of the living organism. The many and various relations of plants and animals to each other and to their environment, which are treated in bionomy (from nomos, law or norm, and bios, life), the interesting facts of parasitism, domesticity, care of the young, social habits, etc., can only be explained by the action of heredity and adaptation. Formerly people saw only the guidance of a beneficent Providence in these phenomena; to-day we discover in them admirable ...
— The Evolution of Man, V.1. • Ernst Haeckel


Words linked to "Parasitism" :   interdependency, interdependence, mutuality


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