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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organism in or on which a parasite reaches sexual maturity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
host , *sporoblast.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the host in which the sexual reproduction of a parasite takes place
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