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Parasitism   Listen
noun
Parasitism  n.  
1.
The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite. "Court parasitism."
2.
(Bot. & Zool.) The state of being parasitic.





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"Parasitism" Quotes from Famous Books



... inspection alone, whether we have before us a plant or an animal. But fixity, in the animal, generally seems like a torpor into which the species has fallen, a refusal to evolve further in a certain direction; it is closely akin to parasitism and is accompanied by features that recall those of vegetable life. On the other hand, the movements of vegetables have neither the frequency nor the variety of those of animals. Generally, they involve only ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson
... literary world both high and low, and had seen enough to convince him that it was an impossible thing to produce art in such a society. The modern world did not know what art was, it was incapable of forming such a concept. That which it called "art" was fraud and parasitism—its very heart was diseased. ...
— Love's Pilgrimage • Upton Sinclair
... time sufficiently obvious that this remarkable association of plant and animal is by no means to be termed a case of parasitism. If so, the animals so infested would be weakened, whereas their exceptional success in the struggle for existence is evident. Anthea cereus, which contains most algae, probably far outnumbers all the other species of sea-anemones put together, and the Radiolarians ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various


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