parasitoid

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Etymology

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From parasite +‎ -oid.

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parasitoid (plural parasitoids)

  1. Any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.
    • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23:
      All of these solitary parasitoid wasps that use their sting-ovipositors for stinging prey and depositing eggs are subjected to little predatory pressure from large predators.

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