PARASITE
\pˈaɹəsˌa͡ɪt], \pˈaɹəsˌaɪt], \p_ˈa_ɹ_ə_s_ˌaɪ_t]\
Definitions of PARASITE
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- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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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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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.
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An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.
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A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; - sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.
By Oddity Software
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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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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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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.
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An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.
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A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; - sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.
By Noah Webster.
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A hanger-on, or one who lives at another's expense, as vagabonds; an animal or plant fed by another to which it attaches itself.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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1. An animal or vegetable organism which lives on or in another and draws its nourishment therefrom. 2. In the case of a fetal inclusion or double monster, the more or less incomplete twin which derives its support from the other, the latter being called the autosite.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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One who frequents another's table: a hanger-on: (bot.) a plant nourished by the juices of another: (zool.) an animal which lives on another.
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PARASITISM.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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One who frequents the tables of the rich, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hangeron; a sycophant; a plant or animal which attaches itself to and lives upon another.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One frequenting the tables of the rich and earning his welcome by flattery; a hangeron; a fawning flatterer; a climbing-plant which grows upon a tree, and obtains nourishment from its juices; an insect living on some animal body.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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Parasites are plants which attach themselves to other plants; and animals which live in or on the bodies of other animals,-so as to subsist at their expense. The mistletoe is a parasitic plant; - the louse a parasitic animal. The chief parasitic animals are the Pediculus humanus corporis, P. capitis, P. pubis, Pulex irritans, P. penetrans, and the Acarus Ssabiei.
By Robley Dunglison
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A plant or animal living upon a living organism; also, a fetus that takes its sustenance from an autosite or twin fetus.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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