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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
parasitise .
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Examples
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Claire studies tawny-flanked prinias and red-faced cisticolas both small streaky warblers that have been parasitised by cuckoo finches laying eggs in their nests.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Maybe it was parasitised by one of Carl Zimmer's mind-manipulating parasites?
Funeral march for a dead slug AYDIN 2006
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Fungal diseases reported are powdery mildew (due to Oidium sp.), which is parasitised by Cincinnobolus cesati; leaf spot (caused by Phoma sp.) and stem rust (caused by Aecidium sp.).
Chapter 6 1987
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They counted the parasitised mealybugs on diffrent plants along with total populations.
WN.com - Articles related to How 'rural' is India's agricultural credit? 2010
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They counted the parasitised mealybugs on diffrent plants along with total populations.
WN.com - Articles related to How 'rural' is India's agricultural credit? 2010
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Our flesh is constantly parasitised by small organisms, bloodsuckers, platyhelminthes, viruses and bacteria.
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Even though parasitised cells are nearly invisible for the immune system, they may be destroyed in the spleen while circulating freely in the bloodstream.
India eNews 2009
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Raccoons are supposedly among the top parasitised animals in North America (which is my neck of the woods).
Bayblab 2008
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In the old fields at the Major’s farm at Musumanene—the big tree next to the river, in Tonga—a prinia or cisticola nest parasitised by a cuckoo finch will earn Lazaro and two other farm workers, Kiverness and Collins, twenty thousand Zambian kwacha about £3.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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