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by sl-1
6 days ago
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I think in this case parasitoid has a specific meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid >Parasitoidism is one of six major evolutionary strategies within parasitism, distinguished by the fatal prognosis for the host, which makes the strategy close to predation. |
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Terms like "spheroid" resisted the same fate, but I think that could change if everybody's talking a lot about some kind of spheroid that remains mysterious enough that we can't give it a better name in time.