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
- : 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.
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