Definition of "inquiline" [in•qui•line]

• An animal that characteristically lives commensally in the nest, burrow, or dwelling place of an animal of another species. (noun)
• Being or living as an inquiline. (adjective)

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• "A cross-grained trapper with murty odd oogs, awflorated ares, inquiline nase and a twithcherous mouph?"
• ""The diminutive inquiline snailfish (Liparis inquilinus"