brood parasitism

English

Noun

brood parasitism (uncountable)

1. (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.

Related terms

• brood parasite

 

Translations

parasitical reliance on host for rearing one's young

• Dutch: broedparasitisme n, nestparasitisme n