parasitoid

From parasite +‎ -oid.

• Audio (US):

  (file)

parasitoid (plural parasitoids)

1. Any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host.
   • 2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     All of these solitary parasitoid wasps that use their sting-ovipositors for stinging prey and depositing eggs are subjected to little predatory pressure from large predators.

• parasitoid wasp