hostitelských

Hostitelských is a form of the Czech adjective hostitelský, which means related to a host or hosting. The root hostitel means host, and the suffix -ský forms adjectives describing characteristics or relations. The form hostitelských is the genitive plural of this adjective and appears when it modifies a noun in the genitive plural, or when a construction requires genitive.

In usage, hostitelských is most common in formal, scientific, or technical writing. It frequently appears in biology, ecology, and medicine to describe host-related attributes or entities, particularly in host–parasite or host–pathogen contexts. Examples include phrases such as: počet hostitelských organismů (the number of host organisms), výskyt hostitelských populací (the occurrence of host populations), and porovnání hostitelských faktorů (the comparison of host-related factors).

The adjective also inflects to agree with nouns in other cases and numbers, producing forms such as hostitelská (feminine singular or neuter plural in certain contexts), hostitelský (masculine singular), and hostitelské (neuter plural or plural adjective form in other cases), enabling clear grammatical alignment with noun phrases.

In biological literature, hostitelský is often used to distinguish characteristics of the host from those of the parasite or pathogen, as in hostitelský orgán (host organ) or hostitelský systém (host system). The term appears across Czech dictionaries and scientific texts to convey relationships involving a host entity.

See also: hostitel, hostitelské, hostitelský vztah, parasitismus.