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parasitic worm |
parasitical |
parasitically |
parasiticidal |
parasiticide |
parasitism
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| parasolette
| parasphenoid
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parasitism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun parasitism has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
parasitism, n. [Cf. F. parasitisme.].
- The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- The state of being parasitic. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
parasitism
accompaniment, accordance, agreement, alliance, apple-polishing, ass-kissing, association, backscratching, bootlicking, brown-nosing, cahoots, co-working, coaction, coincidence, collaboration, collectivity, collusion, combination, combined effort, commensality, concert, concerted action, concomitance, concordance, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conjunction, consilience, conspiracy, cooperation, correspondence, cringing, ecology, ecosystem, fawnery, fawning, flunkyism, footlicking, groveling, handshaking, ingratiation, insinuation, junction, mealymouthedness, obeisance, obsequiousness, prostration, saprophytism, simultaneity, sponging, sycophancy, symbiosis, symbiotics, synchronism, synergy, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyism, truckling, tufthunting, union, united action
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