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The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.
A [symbiotic relationship] in which one species, the [parasite], benefits at the expense of the other, [the host].
the fact of one animal or plant living on or in another animal or plant of a different type and feeding from it:
The practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism.
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