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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
parasite
n 1: an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another
animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host
without benefiting or killing the host [ant: host]
2: a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the
host) in hope of gain or advantage [syn: leech, parasite,
sponge, sponger]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Parasite \Par"a*site\ (p[a^]r"[.a]*s[imac]t), n. [F., fr. L.
parasitus, Gr. para`sitos, lit., eating beside, or at the
table of, another; para` beside + sitei^n to feed, from sitos
wheat, grain, food.]
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1. One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at
another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a
hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.
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Thou, with trembling fear,
Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st. --Milton.
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Parasites were called such smell-feasts as would
seek to be free guests at rich men's tables.
--Udall.
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2. (Bot.)
(a) A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other
plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices
it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called
epiphyte.
(b) A plant living on or within an animal, and supported
at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus
Torrubia.
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3. (Zool.)
(a) An animal which lives during the whole or part of its
existence on or in the body of some other animal,
feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice,
tapeworms, etc.
(b) An animal which steals the food of another, as the
parasitic jager.
(c) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another,
as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.
[1913 Webster] Parasitic
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Thesaurus Results for Parasite:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
adherent, algae, appendage, attendance, attendant, autophyte, barnacle, bean, beat, bedbug, beggar, bloodsucker, body of retainers, bracken, brown algae, buff, bummer, cadger, cat flea, cavaliere servente, chigoe, climber, cockroach, cohort, conferva, confervoid, cortege, coupon clippers, court, courtier, crab, creeper, dangler, deadbeat, dependent, diatom, disciple, dog flea, drone, entourage, fan, fern, flea, flunky, follower, following, freeloader, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, grayback, green algae, gulfweed, hanger-on, henchman, herb, heterophyte, homme de cour, hyena, idle rich, idler, ivy, jackal, jigger, kelp, laze, leech, legume, leisure class, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, lounge lizard, louse, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mite, mold, moocher, mosquito, moss, mushroom, nit, nonworker, panhandler, parasitic plant, parasitize, partisan, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, public, puffball, pulse, pursuer, pursuivant, red algae, red bug, rentiers, retinue, roach, rockweed, rout, rust, sand flea, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, satellite, scrounge, scrounger, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, sectary, shadow, smell-feast, smut, spiv, sponge, sponger, stooge, successor, succulent, sucker, suite, supporter, tagtail, tail, the unemployable, the unemployed, tick, toadstool, train, trainbearer, vermin, vetch, vine, votary, ward heeler, weevil, wood tick, wort, wrack |
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Common Misspellings > |
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