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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of parasitize.

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Examples

  • On the right is the T4 bacteriophage, which parasitizes bacteria.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • On the right is the T4 bacteriophage, which parasitizes bacteria.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • On the left is the tobacco mosaic virus TMV, which parasitizes tobacco plants and other members of the family Solanaceae, such as tomatoes.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • On the left is the tobacco mosaic virus TMV, which parasitizes tobacco plants and other members of the family Solanaceae, such as tomatoes.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Rafflesia have no leaves, instead deriving all their energy from the tissues of the ground vine Tetrastigma, which it parasitizes.

    Borneo lowland rain forests 2008

  • There is physiological and ultrastructural evidence that suggests the fungus parasitizes the algae in a controlled fashion and, in some instances, actually destroys the algal cells.

    Lichen 2008

  • And it was them who murdered hope and kept fear alive; a fear that stalks and haunts us to this day: a horror that has given the Manitou of Dick Cheney to the present like the kiss of Judas; a specter of endless war and war profiteers that parasitizes the innocent and the just, with the insatiable appetite of maggots that feed on the decaying flesh of the dead.

    Solidarity 2007

  • And guess what sort of lifeform parasitizes lichen?

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004

  • He mentioned that some farmers in the United States are attempting to grow corn with large corn smut infestations because the fungus is much more valuable than the corn it parasitizes!

    Huitlacoche 1919

  • Broomrape, also known as cancerroot, neither of which names I would say were delightful, parasitizes the roots of stonecrop.

    Kootenay Rockies - News 2010

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