Look up: parasitoid

1. Parasitoid
   An organism that has a parasitic stage that feeds in or on another organism eventually destroying it, most parasitic Hymenoptera and Diptera fall into this category as usually only the larvae are parasitic.
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2. Parasitoid
   Insects (mostly wasps and flies) in which the adults are free-living, but eggs are laid in, on or near an insect host (or rarely, a spider or isopod), after which the parasitoid larva develops in the host (itself usually a pre-adult), initially doing little apparent harm, but eventually consuming an...
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3. parasitoid
   Denoting a feeding relationship intermediate between predation and parasitism, in which the parasitoid eventually destroys its host; refers especially to parasitic wasps (order Hymenoptera) whose larvae feed on and finally destroy a grub or other arthropod host stung by the mother wasp prior to layi...
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4. parasitoid
   parasitoid Resembling or similar to a parasite.
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5. parasitoid
   Type: Term Pronunciation: par′ă-sī′toyd Definitions: 1. Denoting a feeding relationship intermediate between predation and parasitism, in which the parasitoid eventually destroys its host; refers especially to parasitic wasps (order Hymenoptera) the larvae of which feed on and ...
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6. Parasitoid
   an insect that feeds on or in another insect, and causes death in the host insect; one host is killed in the life of the parasitoid
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7. Parasitoid
   image of endoparasitoid ciliates of the genus Collinia, which can cause mass mortality in affected krill populations A `parasitoid` is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life history attached to or within a single host organism in a relationship that is in essence parasitic;...
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