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Meanings of parasitism in English
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.
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Examples for "parasitic organism"
Examples for "parasitic organism"
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Although it is not certain, the virus is believed to be a small, living, parasitic organism without definite cell structure.
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I met the Locust Queen, you see, and she told me her species was fighting for survival against a parasitic organism in their tunnels.
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Pain, however, is not the only symptom of the invasion of the body by pyogenic or parasitic organisms.
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Infernals were like all parasitic organisms.
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Several of these stories elaborate on the rather stomach-churning theme of scientists growing parasitic organisms... in their own bodies.
Usage of parasitism in English
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Everything lives on that which lives or has lived; everything is parasitism.
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All things considered, is ignoble the right epithet to apply to parasitism?
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With the cruciforms, this parasitism on the human brain has been resumed.
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There can be little doubt that in some cases the epiphytism approaches parasitism.
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The change from parasitism to slavery was an inevitable step of creative intelligence.
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Conclusions: These G. rostochiensis genome resources will facilitate major advances in understanding nematode plant-parasitism.
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Brood parasitism imposes several fitness costs on the host species.
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Many conclude faith-based parasitism on science less costly to the individual, so more adaptive.
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Add the suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved.
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Her life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.
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They pride themselves upon the parasitism which is their shame.
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Having heard its evidence, we shall see what becomes of the theory of parasitism.
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Living on the largesse of others is nothing but parasitism.
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So far from ministering to growth, parasitism ministers to decay.
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War, with very few exceptions, is a mode of parasitism.
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Now what did she do before she took to parasitism?
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