parasitism
Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.
Other meanings
A similar interaction between people or things.
“We accused her of parasitism in taking his hard-earned money for new dresses.”
Related words
- brood parasitism
- adelphoparasitism
- alloparasitism
- autoparasitism
- ectoparasitism
- endoparasitism
- epiparasitism
- holoparasitism
- hyperparasitism
- kleptoparasitism
- monoparasitism
- multiparasitism
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “parasitism” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.