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parasitism

/par-uh-sahy-tiz-uhm, -si-/US // ˈpær ə saɪˌtɪz əm, -sɪ- //UK // (ˈpærəsaɪˌtɪzəm) //

寄生主义,寄生制,寄生,寄生虫

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Biology. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
    • : a parasitic mode of life or existence.
    • : Pathology. a diseased condition due to parasites.
    • : unemployment or refusal to work.employment in work considered nonessential by the state.

Examples

  • While brachiopods with tubes were smaller, Leung says, this might not be due to parasitism.

  • Calling capitalist ownership parasitism is an extreme position, perhaps, but one common enough among Occupiers.

  • But to jump out of parasitism into Socialism would be jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire.

  • The small pipas exercize a real parasitism, ordered by an absent-mindedness of nature.

  • It is based on competitive anarchy and parasitism—the evidences of a defective social organization.

  • In Hemileia it was ruthless parasitism; in Strigula advantageous commensalism.

  • The conventions of the business world have grown up under the selective surveillance of this principle of predation or parasitism.