Nose′ma [...] A genus of protozoa, including the supposed hyperparasite of the malarial organism; [...]
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Hyperparasite
//ˌhaɪpəˈpæɹəsaɪt//
Synonyms for "hyperparasite" (2 found)
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16 translations across 12 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تطفل فوقي noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
Czech
1 entries- hyperparazit noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
Dutch
2 entries- hyperparasiet noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
- hyperparasiet noun (insect that parasitizes another parasitic insect)
Estonian
1 entries- hüperparasiit noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
German
1 entries- Hyperparasit noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- hyperparasitt noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
Polish
2 entries- hiperparazyt noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
- hiperpasożyt noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- hiperparazit noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
- hiperparazit noun (insect that parasitizes another parasitic insect)
Slovene
1 entries- hiperparazit noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
Spanish
2 entries- hiperparásita noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
- hiperparásito noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
Swedish
1 entries- hyperparasit noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ký sinh bậc cao noun (parasite whose host is a parasite)
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Tuberculina maxima Rost., a fungus hyperparasite of blister rust, was variably common to abundant over the area during the test period, and it caused some uncertainties in assessing effectiveness of fungicidal treatments.
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[page 22] Among the most illuminating and certainly the most bizarre of self-replicators are the digital organisms invented by Thomas Ray of the University of Delaware. [...] [page 23] A peculiar creature that is 80 instructions long, but differs from the ancestral sequence by 20 or so alterations, has sometimes been observed; it is a hyperparasite able to force parasites to replace themselves with copies of itself.
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In a second instance, two parasitic fungi (Dicyma pulvinata and Cylindrosporium concentricum) were introduced against a fungal pathogen causing black crust on the foliage of rubber, Phyllachora huberi, in the Amazon basin of Brazil and long-term control was documented [...]. These antagonists are obligate pathogens living as hyperparasites and their increase is dependent on the presence of the plant pathogen.
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