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Parasitism   Listen
noun
Parasitism  n.  
1.
The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite. "Court parasitism."
2.
(Bot. & Zool.) The state of being parasitic.





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... long as possible. In such a case they are forced to remain for a longer or a shorter time attached to the body of their victim, carried about by it wherever the vicissitudes of its life lead them. Such animals have received the name of parasites. Parasitism forms the line inside of which our subject begins; for if one can imagine that the parasite, instead of feeding on the animal from whom he draws his subsistence, is content to live on the remains of the other's ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park


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