parasitoid
adj 1 : resembling a parasite 2 : being a parasitoid n : an insect and esp. a wasp that completes its larval development within the body of another insect which it eventually kills and that is free-living as an adult .
Similar sounding terms: hy·per·acid·i·ty Par·a·si·toi·dea prostatae prostate
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