Parasite

Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.
  • (n.) A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.
  • (n.) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.

Compare parasite with other words:

parasite vs. pargasite

bacteria vs. parasite

epizoon vs. parasite

nutgall vs. parasite

content vs. parasite

parasite vs. toadstool

parasite vs. parasol

parasite vs. saprophytic

fetus vs. parasite

embryo vs. parasite

parasite vs. saprophyte

epiphyte vs. parasite

entophyte vs. parasite

bloodsucker vs. parasite

parasite vs. roundworm

endoparasite vs. parasite

ectoparasite vs. parasite

parasite vs. trichomoniasis

parasite vs. wog

parasite vs. sycophant

parasite vs. parasitism

parasite vs. parasiticide

parasite vs. parasitical

parasite vs. parasitic

commensal vs. parasite

parasite vs. plant

expense vs. parasite

leech vs. parasite

germ vs. parasite

host vs. parasite