parasitism – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
parasitism
n.
living at the expense of or off the body of another organism; manner of living in which an organism obtains its livelihood at the expense of another creature
Parasitism
In
biology/
ecology,
parasitism is a non-mutual
symbiotic relationship between
species, where one species, the
parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the
host. Traditionally
parasite (in biological usage) referred primarily to organisms visible to the naked eye, or
macroparasites (such as
helminths).
Parasite can include
microparasites, which are typically smaller, such as
protozoa,
viruses, and
bacteria. Examples of parasites include the plants
mistletoe and
cuscuta, and animals such as
hookworms.
parasitism
Noun
1. 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)
(hypernym) mutuality, interdependence, interdependency
Parasitism
(n.)
The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.
(n.)
The state of being parasitic.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
parasitism
Synonyms and related words:
accompaniment, accordance, agreement, alliance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, association, backscratching, bootlicking, brown-nosing, cahoots, co-working, coaction, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, commensality, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conjunction, consilience, conspiracy, cooperation, correspondence, 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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
