Definition of Parasitization

1. Noun. The act of being or becoming a parasite. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Parasitization

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasitization

parasitic worm
parasitical
parasitically
parasiticidal
parasiticide
parasiticides
parasitics
parasitisation
parasitisations
parasitise
parasitised
parasitises
parasitising
parasitism
parasitisms
parasitization (current term)
parasitizations
parasitize
parasitized
parasitizes
parasitizing
parasitocenose
parasitogenesis
parasitogenic
parasitoid
parasitoidal
parasitoids
parasitologic
parasitological
parasitologically

Literary usage of Parasitization

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. IPM (Integrated Pest Management) and Biological Control of Plant Pests by Jane P. Gates (1994)
"Despite the low toxicity of es- fenvalerate to Trichogramma spp. in laboratory bioassays, parasitization of H. zea and Heliothis virescens (F.) eggs in the ..."

2. IPM and Biological Control of Plant Pests: Field Crops: Bibliography January by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"The pupal parasite, P. furvus, was capable of causing seasonal parasitization as high as 50.0% within 10 m of the colonization locus and showed the ..."

3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1920)
"A man having sexual malarial parasites in his blood is a reservoir of virus for the parasitization of anopheline mosquitoes which may take up his blood. ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"gives the reproductive power of the adult insect, which alone is liable to parasitization. The last column is obtained by dividing the figures showing egg- ..."

5. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"The organism was recognized by its complete parasitization to milk. It seems certain that Herter and Kendall succeeded in isolating the organism ingested, ..."

6. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1907)
"54 of the US Dept. of Agriculture a case of complete parasitization in a large number of Pieris ..."

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