About The Word Parasitism
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Parasitism
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What's The Definition Of Parasitism?
[n] 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)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Parasitism: Related Terms | Find terms related to Parasitism: accompaniment | accordance | agreement | alliance | apple-polishing | ass-kissing | association | backscratching | bootlicking | brown-nosing | cahoots | coaction | coincidence | collaboration | collectivity | collusion | combination | combined effort | commensality | concert | concerted action | concomitance | concordance | concourse | concurrence | confluence | conjunction | consilience | conspiracy | cooperation | correspondence | co-working | cringing | ecology | ecosystem | fawnery | fawning | flunkyism | footlicking | groveling | handshaking | ingratiation | insinuation | junction | mealymouthedness | obeisance | obsequiousness | prostration | saprophytism | simultaneity | sponging | sycophancy | symbiosis | symbiotics | synchronism | synergy | timeserving | toadeating | toadying | toadyism | truckling | tufthunting | union | united action See Also | interdependence | interdependency | mutuality Parasitism In Webster's Dictionary \Par"a*si`tism\, n. [Cf. F. parasitisme.]
1. The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a
parasite. ``Court parasitism.'' --Milton.
2. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.)The state of being parasitic.
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