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Definition of Parasitising
1. parasitise [v] - See also: parasitise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parasitising
Literary usage of Parasitising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Return to Resistance: Breeding Crops to Reduce Pesticide Dependence by Raoul A. Robinson (1996)
"... to keep specimens of the insects actually parasitising each screening generation.
An insect cabinet, and the usual killing jar and mounting pins will be ..."
2. Architecture of Instruction and Delight: A Socio-historical Analysis of by Pieter van Wesemael (2001)
"... of an inferior economy that only flourished by parasitising on Western
technology, science, and art — for a feeling of self-confidence and pride. ..."
3. Civic and Economic Biology by William Henry Atwood (1922)
"Some are beneficial, parasitising many forms of insect larvae; and some are
parasites on domestic animals. The screw-worm flies, bot-flies, warble flies, ..."
4. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1880)
"He considers it, however, by no means improbable that some practical and economical
method of parasitising noxious insects may yet be discovered. ..."
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