From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.
Par"a*si`tism (?), n. [Cf. F. parasitisme.]
1.
The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.
Milton.
2. Bot. & Zool.
The state of being parasitic.
© Webster 1913.
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