parasitoid
nounEtymology From parasite + -oid.
1
Any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.
- All of these solitary parasitoid wasps that use their sting-ovipositors for stinging prey and depositing eggs are subjected to little predatory pressure from large predators.2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23:
- Derived terms
- alloparasitoid, autoparasitoid, ectoparasitoid, endoparasitoid, hyperparasitoid, parasitoidal, parasitoid wasp