PARASITISM

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("parasitism" is a kind of...):

interdependence; interdependency; mutuality (a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups))

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