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PRONUNCIATION OF INQUILINISM

inquilinism  [ˈɪnkwɪlɪˌnɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INQUILINISM

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Inquilinism is a noun.
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WHAT DOES INQUILINISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

inquilinism

Inquiline

In zoology, an inquiline is an animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species. For example, some organisms such as insects may live in the homes of gophers and feed on debris, fungi, roots, etc. The most widely distributed types of inquiline are those found in association with the nests of social insects, especially ants and termites – a single colony may support dozens of different inquiline species. The distinctions between parasites, social parasites, and inquilines are subtle, and many species may fulfill the criteria for more than one of these, as inquilines do exhibit many of the same characteristics of parasites. However, parasites are specifically not inquilines, because by definition they have a deleterious effect on the host species, while inquilines do not. Examples of the inquiline relation are known especially among the gall wasps. In the sub-family Synerginae this mode of life predominates. These insects differ but little in structure from the true gall-inducing wasps, but they cannot produce galls and consequently deposit their eggs within those of other species.

Definition of inquilinism in the English dictionary

The definition of inquilinism in the dictionary is the state of living in close association with another animal without harming it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INQUILINISM


alpinism
ˈælpɪˌnɪzəm
brominism
ˈbrəʊmɪˌnɪzəm
Calvinism
ˈkælvɪˌnɪzəm
chauvinism
ˈʃəʊvɪˌnɪzəm
cretinism
ˈkrɛtɪˌnɪzəm
Darwinism
ˈdɑːwɪˌnɪzəm
determinism
dɪˈtɜːmɪˌnɪzəm
diclinism
ˈdaɪklɪˌnɪzəm
ecofeminism
ˌiːkəʊˈfɛmɪˌnɪzəm
feminism
ˈfɛmɪˌnɪzəm
Hellenism
ˈhɛlɪˌnɪzəm
hyperinsulinism
ˌhaɪpərˈɪnsjʊlɪˌnɪzəm
illuminism
ɪˈluːmɪˌnɪzəm
indeterminism
ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪˌnɪzəm
Jainism
ˈdʒaɪˌnɪzəm
Leninism
ˈlɛnɪˌnɪzəm
Philistinism
ˈfɪlɪstɪˌnɪzəm
Stalinism
ˈstɑːlɪˌnɪzəm
strychninism
ˈstrɪknɪˌnɪzəm
vulpinism
ˈvʌlpɪˌnɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INQUILINISM

inquiet
inquietly
inquietude
inquiline
inquilinic
inquilinity
inquilinous
inquinate
inquination
inquiration
inquire
inquirendo
inquirer
inquiries
inquiring
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inquiry
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WORDS THAT END LIKE INQUILINISM

actinism
albinism
antifeminism
Brahminism
caffeinism
diactinism
economic determinism
griffinism
Jacobinism
libertinism
luminism
male chauvinism
mandarinism
Marxism-Leninism
mechanism
Molinism
Neo-Darwinism
nicotinism
post-feminism
routinism
terminism

Synonyms and antonyms of inquilinism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Trends of use of inquilinism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INQUILINISM»

The term «inquilinism» is barely ever used and occupies the 206.710 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INQUILINISM» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INQUILINISM»

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The Ants
Belgium van Boven (1970) M. hirsuta Myrmica sabuleti; queen survives Myrmica Inquilinism; workerless England Elmes (1983) M. lampra Myrmica alaskensis Myrmica Inquilinism; workerless Canada Francoeur (1968, 1981) M. lemasnei ...
Bert Hölldobler, 1990
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Partnerships in the Sea: Hong Kong's Marine Symbioses
Inquilinism is a simpler category to define but one of which it is harder to find specific local examples. It encompasses those species which live within another, but without the element of commensalism where food is removed from the host's  ...
Brian Morton, 1989
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The Evolution of Social Behaviour in Insects and Arachnids
In the following sections we discuss the implications of such communal rearing for parental care, nestmate parasitism and inquilinism. Implications for parental care Allodapine larvae show considerable complexity in their morphology, with ...
Jae C. Choe, Bernard J. Crespi, 1997
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Sociobiology
One member ofthe genus, Strongylognathus testaceus, has completed thetransition to complete inquilinism. TheTetramorium queenis toleratedand lives sideby side with theS. testaceus queen.Thereare fewertestaceus thanhost workers,the ...
Edward O. Wilson
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The Social Biology of Wasps
The most highly evolved form of social parasitism is inquilinism (e.g., Roseler, this volume), in which the worker caste has been dispensed with and the parasitic strategy thus presumably specialized to the point of no return. How yellowjacket ...
Kenneth G. Ross, Robert W. Matthews, 1991
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Social Insects and the Environment: Proceedings of the 11th ...
Moreover, in some of these groups inquilinism presumably has evolved several times convergently, e.g., nine times in tropical Pheidole species (Wilson 1984). Since in all these groups no slave-makers or guest ants are known which might be ...
International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress, G. K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, 1990
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Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology
This is to be distinguished from inquilinism, which is a particular kind of commensalism in which one organism lives within another, usually in some part of the alimentary tract or respiratory chamber, without being parasitic on it or causing it any ...
Joel W. Iledgpeth and Harry S. Ladd, 1957
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Kin Recognition
This situation is found mainly in two categories of social parasitism: inquilinism, where the parasitic species invades nests of another species and then exploits the worker force of the host. This permanent phenomenon exists in both wasps and ...
Peter G. Hepper, 2005
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Fungus-insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and ...
Thus, I hypothesize that epigeal habits are plesioecotypic and puffball feeding and inquilinism apoecotypic. COMPONENT 6: INQUILINISM Inquilinism of Scotocryptus and related genera in nests of Meliponinae (Apidae; see Roubik and ...
Quentin Wheeler, Meredith Blackwell, 1984
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
Tertiary hyperparasitism that involves members of different species (Sullivan 1987, 55). inquilinism See parasitism: social parasitism. intraspecific-nest parasitism See parasitism: nest parasitism. kidnapping See parasitism: social parasitism: ...
Edward M. Barrows, 2011

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INQUILINISM»

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(a) Fixation of nitrogen, the biological process by which nitrogen in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia. (b) Mycorrhiza. (c) Inquilinism. 5. «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 11»

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