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inquiline

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inquiline [′in·kwə‚līn]
(zoology)
An animal that inhabits the nest of another species.


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Barnouw praises Naipaul's mobile, non-aligned, inquiline movement between civilizations, and at the same time approvingly quotes another critic: As Boyers puts it sensibly: 'there is something grotesque about demanding of a world-class writer that he hew to a party line or an ethnic perspective.
North American Myrmecophilus species are inquilines that inhabit the nests of many ant species (Henderson and Akre, 1986).
Several species of warm water hydrozoan cnidarians inhabit body folds of bivalve molluscs as inquiline symbiotes.
 
 
 
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