Usually means: Host where parasite reaches maturity.
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  1. definitive host: Merriam-Webster
  2. definitive host: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. definitive host: Vocabulary.com
  4. definitive host: Wordnik
  5. definitive host: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. definitive host: Dictionary.com
  7. Definitive host: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. definitive host: Rhymezone
  9. definitive host: FreeDictionary.org
  10. definitive host: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. definitive host: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. definitive host: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. definitive host: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. definitive host: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. definitive host: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. definitive host: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (definitive host)

noun:  (ecology) The host in which a parasite reproduces sexually.

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