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Definitions of parasitic in various dictionaries:
adj - relating to or caused by parasites
adj - of or pertaining to epenthesis
adj - of plants or persons
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caused by or relating to a parasite: |
(of an organism) living as a parasite. |
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a parasite. |
Caused by a parasite: parasitic diseases. |
relating to or caused by parasites |
of plants or persons having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech living off another |
of or pertaining to epenthesis |
Parasitic description |
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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 |