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parasitoid

parasitoid noun: any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.

Noun

parasitoid (plural parasitoids)

  1. Any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.
    • All of these solitary parasitoid wasps that use their sting-ovipositors for stinging prey and depositing eggs are subjected to little predatory pressure from large predators.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23

Forms of parasitoid

pluralparasitoids

Origin of parasitoid

From parasite + -oid.

Words formed from parasitoid

Questions about parasitoid

What does parasitoid mean?
Parasitoid means any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.
What part of speech is parasitoid?
Parasitoid is a noun.
What is the plural of parasitoid?
The plural of parasitoid is parasitoids.

Words near parasitoid in the dictionary

  1. parasitocenosis
  2. parasitocidal
  3. parasitofauna
  4. parasitofaunal
  5. parasitofaunas
  6. parasitoid
  7. parasitoid wasp
  8. parasitoidal
  9. parasitoidisation
  10. parasitoidism
  11. parasitoidisms

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