inquiline

An animal that characteristically lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.

Being or living as an inquiline.

In zoology, an animal that lives in an abode properly belonging to another, either at its expense, as certain insects that live in galls made by the true gall-insects, or merely as a cotenant, as a pea-crab which lives in an oyster-shell, or a sea-anemone growing on a crab’s back; a commensal. See cut under cancrisocial.

Having the character of an inquiline; commensal.

A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.

An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.

An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf.