Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An organism that plays a role in a parasite's life cycle, as by harboring its unhatched eggs, but in or on which no development of the parasite occurs.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek parateinein, to extend, prolong (para-, para- + teinein, to stretch; see ten- in Indo-European roots) + –ic.]
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