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parasitoids

parasitoids is the plural of parasitoid.

Meaning of parasitoid

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

Questions about parasitoids

What is parasitoids the plural of?
Parasitoids is the plural of parasitoid.

Words near parasitoids in the dictionary

  1. parasitoid wasp
  2. parasitoidal
  3. parasitoidisation
  4. parasitoidism
  5. parasitoidisms
  6. parasitoids
  7. parasitoidy
  8. parasitologic
  9. parasitological
  10. parasitologically
  11. parasitologies

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