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Definitions of parasites in various dictionaries:
noun - an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant)
noun - a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
noun - an organism that lives and feeds on or in another organism
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| Henry Ford called minority stockholders in his corporation these, like the ones that cause dysentery & malaria |
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| Plural form of parasite. |
| an organism which lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense. |
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In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a 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. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the broomrapes. There are six major parasitic strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), trophically transmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation. * Like predation, parasitism is a type of consumer-resource interaction, but unlike predators, parasites, with the exceptio |