Inquiline

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An animal that characteristically lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.
  • adj. Being or living as an inquiline.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.
  • n. An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In zoology, an animal that lives in an abode properly belonging to another, either at its expense, as certain insects that live in galls made by the true gall-insects, or merely as a cotenant, as a pea-crab which lives in an oyster-shell, or a sea-anemone growing on a crab's back; a commensal. See cut under cancrisocial.
  • Having the character of an inquiline; commensal.
    • Word Usage
    ""The diminutive inquiline snailfish (Liparis inquilinus"
    Cross Reference
    inquiline gall-fly   
    Form
    inquilinous    inquinility    inquilinism   
     
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