parasitism

Summary

parasitism ranks in the top 0.75% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,507 views/month, #585 of 77,819).^[1]

Key Facts

• parasite is named after parasitism^[2].
• parasitism is a type of symbiosis^[3].
• parasitism is a type of predator^[4].
• parasitism's Commons category is recorded as Parasites^[5].
• parasitism comprises host organism^[6].
• parasitism comprises parasite^[7].
• parasitism's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Parasitism^[8].
• parasitism's described by source is recorded as Encyclopedia of Armenian Nature^[9].
• parasitism's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[10].
• parasitism's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[11].
• parasitism's described by source is recorded as Yuzhakov Big Encyclopedia^[12].
• parasitism's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary^[13].
• parasitism's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7^[14].
• parasitism's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)^[15].
• parasitism's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://biology.stackexchange.com/tags/parasitism^[16].
• parasitism's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[17].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include symbiosis^[3] and predator^[4].

Origins

parasite is named after parasitism^[2].

Use and Application

Components include host organism^[6] and parasite^[7], a class of living thing^[18].

Why It Matters

parasitism ranks in the top 0.75% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,507 views/month, #585 of 77,819).^[1] parasitism has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[19] parasitism is known by 40 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[20]