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1. Symbiosis in which one population (or individual) adversely affects the other, but cannot live without it: Parasitism is the interaction between two organisms whereby one of them, the parasite, benefits at the cost of the host.
2. Infection or infestation with parasites: Jane wondered why her favorite plant was dying and then she saw that it had a bad case of parasitism.
3. Etymology: "a hanger-on, a toady, a person who lives on others", from Middle French (about 1400 to 1600) parasite; from Latin parasitus, from Greek parasitos, "person who eats at the table of another"; from para-, "beside" + sitos, "food".
2. Infection or infestation with parasites: Jane wondered why her favorite plant was dying and then she saw that it had a bad case of parasitism.
3. Etymology: "a hanger-on, a toady, a person who lives on others", from Middle French (about 1400 to 1600) parasite; from Latin parasitus, from Greek parasitos, "person who eats at the table of another"; from para-, "beside" + sitos, "food".
The scientific meaning of "animal" or "plant that lives on others" is first recorded in 1646.
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Symbiosis in which members of one species exist at the expense of members of another species: Parasitism is the condition of one organism benefiting from another, and the other being harmed, but usually not involving their deaths.
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Parasitism in which a queen of one species enters an alien nest, usually belonging to another species, kills or renders the resident queen infertile, and takes her place: In a temporary social parasitism, the population of the colony then becomes increasingly dominated by the offspring of the parasite queen as the host workers die from natural causes.
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The intrusion of one species into the social system of another: An example of trophic parasitism is when a foreign species utilizes the trail system) in order to steal food.
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