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Animal that sponges on another
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inquiline
Word definitions for inquiline in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inquiline \In"qui*line\, n. [L. inquilinus a tenant, lodger.] (Zo["o]l.) A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In zoology , an inquiline (from Latin inquilinus , "lodger" or "tenant") 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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biology English) An animal that lives commensal in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species. 2 (context biology English) An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant ...
Usage examples of inquiline.
They were alone together in that library which had already been the stage of some fateful scenes, a room now dusty and disordered from the neglect and carelessness of its inquilines of these past weeks.