Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PARASITIZE

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Definitions of PARASITIZE

1. (biology) To live on or in a host organism as a parasite.
2. To behave as a parasite more generally.

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Examples of Using PARASITIZE in a Sentence

• Adult flatworms parasitize blood capillaries of either the mesenteries or plexus of the bladder, depending on the infecting species.
• Dermatobia hominis is the only species of botfly known to parasitize humans routinely, though other species of flies cause myiasis in humans.
• The genus Arceuthobium, commonly called dwarf mistletoes, is a genus of 26 species of parasitic plants that parasitize members of Pinaceae and Cupressaceae in North America, Central America, Asia, Europe, and Africa.
• The Toxocaridae include parasites of canids, felids, and raccoons, but can unsuccessfully parasitize humans and cause visceral larva migrans.
• Its reproductive cycle is typical of other freshwater mussels, requiring a host fish on which its larvae (glochidia) parasitize and metamorphose into juvenile mussels.
• A number of natural predators can be employed to keep flea beetles in check, including two that parasitize it: braconid wasps and tachinid flies.
• This isopod is known to parasitize eight species in two orders and four families of fish—seven species of order Perciformes: three snappers, one species of grunt, three drums, and one species of silverside: one grunion.
• The ischnoceran louse Austrophilopterus cancellosus is suspected to parasitize all species of Ramphastos toucans.
• The ischnoceran louse Austrophilopterus flavirostris is suspected to parasitize most if not all species of aracaris, with the possible exception of the green aracari (Price & Weckstein 2005).
• Other kinds of wasps, including Bracon hebetor and Venturia canescens, parasitize almond moth larvae in the later instars.
• Two species of tick, Amblyomma americanum and Ixodes pacificus, are known to parasitize the sparrow.
• A species of bird louse, Chelopistes lervicola has been described as an ectoparasite of this species, and other species in this louse genus are known to parasitize the Cracidae, Meleagrididae and Odontophorinae of the New World.
• The number of times kleptoparasitic behavior has independently evolved within the bees is remarkable; Charles Duncan Michener (2000) lists 16 lineages in which parasitism of social species has evolved (mostly in the family Apidae), and 31 lineages that parasitize solitary hosts (mostly in Apidae, Megachilidae, and Halictidae), collectively representing several thousand species, and therefore a very large proportion of overall bee diversity.
• Myco-heterotrophs; plants, fungi, or micro-organisms that live on dead or decomposing matter and parasitize fungi, rather than dead organic matter directly.
• They are exceptional in that they are one of two hymenopteran families with some species that are known to parasitize thrips.
• There is one common species of bombyliid flies known to parasitize the larvae of Xylocopa virginica: Xenox tigrinus.
• The species of this genus are mostly hemiparasitic, meaning although they can survive and grow by themselves, they also opportunistically tap into the root systems of nearby plants and parasitize them.
• Bees of the genus Nomada most often parasitize bees of the genus Andrena, but have also been observed parasitizing other ground-nesting bees in the families Andrenidae, Melittidae, Halictidae, and Apidae.
• About 50 species are known in this small relictual group, all of which appear to be hyperparasitoids that parasitize Dryinidae (that attack leafhoppers).
• Additionally lungworms and the nasal botfly will enter and parasitize the deer's lungs and nasal passageways.
• It is also known to parasitize other members of the genus Juglans on occasion, and very rarely other related trees including hickories.
• It is often found near Suillus luteus and Suillus brevipes, and is known to parasitize the mycelium of both those and the truffle-like Rhizopogon species.
• Gregarines tend to parasitize invertebrates with the mature gamonts being extracellular; the coccidia mostly infect vertebrates and have intracellular gamonts.
• In France, Omphiscola glabra is naturally infected with Fasciola hepatica, Calicophoron daubneyi, and Haplometra cylindracea; in all, seven digenean species parasitize O.
• When the clean, well-oxygenated water of the mussels' habitat gets a certain amount of sedimentation, the juveniles are not able to develop properly, because the silt clogs the gills of the host fish that they parasitize themselves on.

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