parasitism
nounEtymology
From parasite + -ism. Cognate with French parasitisme and Portuguese and Spanish parasitismo.
Definitions
Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the…
Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.
A similar interaction between people or things.
- We accused her of parasitism in taking his hard-earned money for new dresses.
- These devices' energy consumption is parasitism upon the electrical grid.
The neighborhood
Derived
adelphoparasitism, alloparasitism, autoparasitism, brood parasitism, ectoparasitism, endoparasitism, epiparasitism, holoparasitism, hyperparasitism, kleptoparasitism, monoparasitism, multiparasitism, mycoparasitism, nonparasitism, polyparasitism, pseudoparasitism, self-parasitism, superparasitism, xenoparasitism
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for parasitism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA