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捕食ほしょく

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Inflections of 捕食
ほしょく
Meaning
    1. ①
      predation; eating prey; preying upon
      例たとえばベルベットモンキーは、輪わを描えがいて飛とぶワシがいるとある種たねの呼よびかけを用もちいるようになる。ワシはサルを捕食ほしょくするのだ。
      For example, vervet monkeys learn to use a certain call in the presence of circling eagles, who prey on the monkeys.
    1. ①
      EN In an ecosystem, predation is a biological interaction where a predator (an organism that is hunting) feeds on its prey (the organism that is attacked).
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捕 ホ catch, capture 食 ショク eat, food
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捕食寄生ほしょくきせい

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ほしょくきせい
Meaning
    1. ①
      parasitoidism
    1. ①
      EN A parasitoid is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life history attached to or within a single host organism in a relationship that is in e...
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捕 ホ catch, capture 食 ショク eat, food 寄 キ draw near, stop in, bring near 生 セイ life, genuine, birth
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