Phrase Hound found 2 phrases and 20 compound words that contain parasitism. The most common are listed below. Open parasitism in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 2
- brood parasitismThe practice of some species of animal (the parasites) of relying on another species (the host species) to rear the parasites' young, as practised by certain birds (for example, most species of cuckoo), insects (for example, cuckoo …
- self-parasitismThe property of being self-parasitic.
Compound words 20
- kleptoparasitismThe parasitic theft of captured prey, nest material, etc., from animals of the same or another species.
- holoparasitismThe condition of being holoparasitic or of being a holoparasite
- polyparasitismThe presence of multiple parasites on the same host
- pseudoparasitismparasitism by a pseudoparasite
- adelphoparasitismembryonic parasitism
- alloparasitismparasitism involving alloparasites
- autoparasitismA form of parasitism in which a parasite infects another individual of the same species
- ectoparasitismThe condition of being an ectoparasite.
- endoparasitismBehaviour of endoparasites.
- epiparasitismBehaviour of epiparasites.