Usually means: Relationship where one organism benefits.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. parasitism: Merriam-Webster
  2. parasitism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. parasitism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. parasitism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. parasitism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Parasitism, parasitism: Wordnik
  7. parasitism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. parasitism: Wiktionary
  9. parasitism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. parasitism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. parasitism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. parasitism: Dictionary.com
  13. Parasitism (social offense), Parasitism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Parasitism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. parasitism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. parasitism: Rhymezone
  17. Parasitism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. parasitism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. parasitism: FreeDictionary.org
  20. parasitism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. parasitism: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. parasitism: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parasitism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. parasitism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. parasitism: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Tree of Life Glossary (No longer online)
  3. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  4. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. parasitism: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See parasitisms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (parasitism)

noun:  (ecology, biology) Interaction between two organisms, in which one organism (the parasite) benefits and the other (the host) is harmed.
noun:  (figuratively) A similar interaction between people or things.

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