Look up: Parasite

1. parasite
   n. An organism that lives on or within a host (another organism); it obtains nutrients from the host without benefiting or killing (although it may damage) the host; parasitic- adj.; parasitism- n. a type of symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other does not.
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2. Parasite
   A plant without chlorophyll that obtains its nutrients by tapping into the branches, stems or roots of living green plants
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3. Parasite
   A parasite is an organism (a plant or animal) that lives on another organism (the host), obtaining nutrition from it and sapping or killing the host.
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4. Parasite
   Any plant that grows upon another. It steals its moisture and nourishment from its host. Mistletoe is a good example.
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5. Parasite
   Tiny creatures, such as fleas, ticks or mites, that feed on larger animals, sucking their blood.
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6. parasite
   An organism living in or on another living organism (host) from which it extracts nutrients.
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7. Parasite
   An organism living on or in, and negatively affecting, another organism
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8. Parasite
   Organism or virus existing in intimate association with living organism from which it derives material essential for its existence while conferring no benefit in return (Marsh, 1969).
   An organism that lives at the host's expense, obtaining nutriment from the living substance of the latter, depriving it of useful substance, or exerting other harmful influence upon it (Cantwell, 1974).
   Any organism that lives in or one the body of another living organism and obtains nourishment from it (Pyenson, 1951).
   A plant or animal living on or in another plant or animal, which is called its host. The host continues, for some time at least, to live and feed its parasite (contrast predator) but may eventually be killed by it. A parasite of one host may itself be a host to another parasite, so the terms are relative. A crop-eating insect could be called a parasite or a herbivore, but is not usually so-called. It is usually simply called a pest, which may be subject to parasites, themselves perhaps subject to 'hyper-parasites'. A fungus living on the crop is always called a parasite (Hartley & West, 1966).
   An organism living in intimate association with a living organism (plant or animal) from which it derives material essential for its existence while conferring no benefit in return (Hill, 1983).
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9. Parasite
   An organism that lives in or on another organism and often survives by draining nutrients from its host.
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10. parasite
    [n] - an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant)
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11. Parasite
    A living thing that feeds on or in another living thing, e.g. a malaria parasite
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12. Parasite
    an organisms that lives on or in other organisms, from which it obtains nutrients
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13. Parasite
    Any animal or vegetable organism living upon or within another (host) from which it derives its nourishment
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14. Parasite
    Parasite: An organism that lives in or on and takes its nourishment from another organism. A parasite cannot live independently. Parasitic diseases include infections by protozoa, helminths, and arthropods: Protozoa -- Malaria is caused by plasmodium, a protozoa, a single-cell organism that can only...
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15. parasite
    an organism(plant or animal)that lives in or on another living organism of a different kind and derives subsistence from it without returning any benefit Category: Medicine
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16. Parasite
    An organism that obtains its nutrients from one or a very few host individuals causing harm but not causing death immediately.
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17. Parasite
    Par'a·site noun [ French, from Latin parasitus , Greek ..., lit., eating beside, or at the table of, another; para` beside + ... to feed, from ... wheat, grain, food.] 1. One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at...
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18. parasite
    <biology> An organism which obtains food and shelter from another organism (for example Giardia). ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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19. parasite
    noun 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
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20. parasite
    (par´ә-sīt) a plant or animal that lives upon or within another living organism at whose expense it obtains some advantage; see also symbiosis. Parasites include multicelled and single-celled animals, fungi, and bacteria, and some authorities also include viruses. Those that feed upon human hosts can cause di...
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21. Parasite
    • (n.) An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager. • (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 habituall...
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22. Parasite
    an organism or virus that lives on or in another living organism and obtains food from that organism.
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23. parasite
    parasite 1. An organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriments. 2. A person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as someone who lives on the hospit...
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24. Parasite
    Organism that benefits from another organism by harming it.
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25. Parasite
    Consumer organism that feeds on a host for an extended period of time. Feeding causes the host to be less fit and may eventually cause premature death.
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