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brood parasitism noun

  • (biology, particularly, ornithology) The practice of some species of animal (the parasites) of relying on another species (the host species) to rear the parasites' young, as practised by certain birds (for example, most species of cuckoo), insects (for example, cuckoo bumblebees) and some other animals.
 broedparasitisme, nestparasitisme
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