colacobiosis

—colacobiotic /kol'euh koh buy ot"ik/, adj.

/kol'euh koh buy oh"sis/, n., pl. colacobioses /-seez/.

(among social insects) life in which one species lives as a parasite in the community of another species.

[ < Gk kolak- (s. of kólax) parasite + -O- + -BIOSIS]

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