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PARASITISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parasitism mean?
• PARASITISM (noun)
The noun PARASITISM has 1 sense:
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)
Familiarity information: PARASITISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("parasitism" is a kind of...):
interdependence; interdependency; mutuality (a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups))
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