parasitism
- n the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
- He was on to welfare parasitism years before the Great Society: "Extreme care should be taken that public assistance is not made a mockery by those who would freeload off their .
- Probably both: it was a case of symbiotic parasitism.
- A professor of environmental health at Columbia University in New York City, Despommier teaches about parasitism, environmental disruption and other assorted happy topics.