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the state or condition of living at the expense of, on, or within another organism (called the host), from which sustenance or protection is derived without making compensation. With birds, the term is used to describe laying eggs in the nest of another species so that one's young are raised by the host adults. The Brown-headed Cowbird is a nest parasite of this type.
Ãâó: museum.nhm.uga.edu/gawildlife/glossary/gawwglossar...
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A long-term relationship between two organisms that is beneficial to one organism (the parasite) but detrimental to the other (the host). A
Ãâó: blue.utb.edu/biology/Oliva/terms_and_definitions_f...
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(i) Feeding by one organism on the cells of a second organism, which is usually larger than the first. The parasite is, to some extent, dependent on the host at whose expense it is maintained. (ii) An association whereby one organism (parasite) lives in or on another organism (host) and benefits at the expense of the host.
Ãâó: www.soils.org/sssagloss/cgi-bin/gloss_search.cgi
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A relationship in which one organism, a parasite, secures its nourishment by living on or inside a host organism at the expense of its host
Ãâó: www.planetpals.com/ecodictionary.html
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An obligatory symbiosis between individuals of two different species, in which the parasite is metabolically dependent on the host, and in which the host is typically adversely affected but rarely killed
Ãâó: www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/end_species/es_gloss/es_gl...
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