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PARASITISM
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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))