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An organism that is a parasite during part of its life cycle: An insect, particularly a wasp, is a parasitoid in that it completes its larval growth inside a host of another insect, and finally kills it., and then is then free-living as an adult organism.
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“parasitoids”
A parasite that slowly kills its victim, this event occurring near the end of the parasite's larval development: A parasitoid can be any organism, that completes its larva growth by living in or on its host and finally crushing out the life of its host.
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