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PRONUNCIATION OF PARASITIC MALE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PARASITIC MALE

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Parasitic male is a noun.
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WHAT DOES PARASITIC MALE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of parasitic male in the English dictionary

The definition of parasitic male in the dictionary is a male animal that is much smaller than the female and is totally dependent on the female for its nutrition, such as the male of some species of deep-sea angler fish.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PARASITIC MALE

parasitaemia
parasite
parasite drag
parasite resistance
parasitic
parasitic oscillation
parasitical
parasitically
parasiticalness
parasiticidal
parasiticide
parasitisation
parasitise
parasitism
parasitization
parasitize
parasitoid
parasitologic
parasitological
parasitologist

WORDS THAT END LIKE PARASITIC MALE

alpha male
antifemale
antimale
dwarf male
female
intermale
male
metafemale
metamale
rogue male
she-male
superfemale
supermale
tamale

Synonyms and antonyms of parasitic male in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «parasitic male» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PARASITIC MALE

Find out the translation of parasitic male to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of parasitic male from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «parasitic male» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

寄生男
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

parasitaria masculina
570 millions of speakers

English

parasitic male
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परजीवी पुरुष
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الطفيلي الذكور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

паразитарные мужчина
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

masculino parasitária
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পরজীবী পুরুষ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

parasitaire mâle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Lelaki parasit
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

parasitären männlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

寄生男性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기생 남성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Lanang parasit
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ký sinh nam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஒட்டுண்ணி ஆண்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

परजीवी पुरुष
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Paraziter erkek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parassitaria maschio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pasożytnicze mężczyzna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

паразитарні чоловік
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

masculin parazitare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παρασιτική αρσενικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

parasitiese manlike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

parasitisk hane
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

parasittiske mannlige
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of parasitic male

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PARASITIC MALE»

The term «parasitic male» is barely ever used and occupies the 193.716 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PARASITIC MALE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about parasitic male

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARASITIC MALE»

Discover the use of parasitic male in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to parasitic male and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Oceanic Anglerfishes: Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea
272-mm female with 74-mm parasitic male; 308-mm female with four parasitic males, 78 to 88 mm; 320-mm female with 48-mm parasitic male; 324-mm female with 48-mm parasitic male; 345-mm female with six parasitic males, 18 to 44 mm;  ...
Theodore W. Pietsch, 2009
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Centrarchid Fishes: Diversity, Biology and Conservation
Such exploitation behavior may include: sneak- or streak-spawning whereby a parasitic male darts into a bourgeois male's domain during spawning, or female mimicry whereby a parasitic male accesses females by deceiving a bourgeois ...
Steven Cooke, David P. Philipp, 2009
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McCurnin's Clinical Textbook for Veterinary Technicians
There are no parasitic male worms. These parasitic threadworms are very tiny. The parasitic females are triploid (3N) relative to chromosome count. When an organism is triploid, it means that the organism has three times the “normal” number ...
Joanna M Bassert, Dennis M McCurnin, 2013
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Manson's Tropical Diseases
... (Bavay, 1876) Parasitology Formerly it was thought that embryos were produced by a parasitic, parthenogenetic female, in the absence of a male, but it is now known that a parasitic male exists, shorter and broader than the female.
Gordon C. Cook, Alimuddin I. Zumla, 2009
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Stem Cells in Marine Organisms
The two following examples simplify a different solution pathway, formation of a parasitic male (reduced down to stem cells in extreme cases) on host conspecific female. The first example is the anglerfishes, a group of deep-sea ceratioid ...
Baruch Rinkevich, Valeria Matranga, 2009
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Ecology and Conservation of Fishes
Ted.Regan,.Museum.Director,.realized.that.the.tiny.fish.found.attached.to.a.deep- sea.anglerfish.was. a.parasitic.male,.and.confirmed.this.by.finding.more.attached. males.in.the.museum.collection.(Idyll. 1971).(Figure.19.9).
Harold M. Tyus, 2011
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Parasitic Animals
33°. production of injurious substances by, 231-4 reduction of resistance by, 235- 6 removal of host's blood by, 113- 22, 148, 238-44 vertebrate, 13, world incidence of, in man, 329- 30 zoological classification of, 1 3 parasitic male, 162 ...
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Molecular Ecology and Evolution: The Organismal Side : ...
In the case of EPC. or sneaking, the parasitic male may steal fertilizations from other males who have gained access to females. The sneaker may profit in at least two ways. First, by mating covertly or forcibly with females attracted by another ...
John C. Avise, 2010
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
1985). cf. caste: ergatandromorph; female complemental male See male: parasitic male. drone n. In social bees: A male bee, especially a male Apis or Bombus (Torre-Bueno, 1989). cf. caste: queen ergatomorphic male, ergatoid male See ...
Edward M. Barrows, 2011
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On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection
... supplied with comple- mental males, and finally progressing to a species in which the sexes were represented by a female and a parasitic male. The divergence of sexes in the barnacle suggested a broader evolutionary principle whereby, ...
Charles Darwin, Thomas F. Glick, David Kohn, 1996

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARASITIC MALE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term parasitic male is used in the context of the following news items.
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Is This Petty? He Proposed Without A Ring, And I'm Starting To Feel …
For she will not have a HUSBAND/MAN just a parasitic male desiring to live off her. Maryfrancis. Uhhh, the letter said that he is in grad school. «Madame Noire, Jul 15»
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The blobfish and other deep questions
... part Darth Vader) and a female soft leftvent angler fish with a parasitic male angler fish fused to her side, redefining the concept of “needy”. «The Australian, Jan 15»
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'Under The Deep Sea' Makes 'The Little Mermaid' Seem Way Darker
If Ariel grew up there, she probably would have replaced her best friend, Flounder, with a blobfish and fallen in love with a parasitic male ... «Huffington Post, Sep 14»
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The extreme life of the sea
In the following days and weeks, the parasitic male's circulatory system merges with his host's. Her blood delivers nutrients, pumped through a shared lattice of ... «Divernet, Sep 14»
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A New Parasitic Male Found
Screen Shot 2014-01-26 at 7.30.03 PM Over 300 different species of anglerfish exist in the oceans. The prominent lure gives them both their ... «Deep-Sea News, Jan 14»
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Credit: TW Pietsch, University of Washington
The smallest of the parasitic male angler fish Pietsch described in ... We are talking about a parasitic male only that couldn't live on its own," ... «LiveScience.com, Jan 12»
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Cloned Fathers Mate With Insect Daughters—From Inside
Though this new form of reproduction hasn't replaced cottony cushion scale sex, "this parasitic male has taken off like an epidemic in ... «National Geographic, Aug 11»
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What's Really Under the Sea
There are orgies (whales are into it), detachable sperm arms (an octopus talent), parasitic male insemination (anglerfishes), and organisms that ... «New Yorker, May 11»

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