1) American monster movie 2) Animated series villain 3) Aphid or flea 4) Being 5) British pop music group 6) DC Comics metahuman 7) Dog flea 8) English-language journal 9) Fictional humanoid 10) Fictional mass murderer 11) Fictional twin 12) Flea, to a dog 13) French word used in English 14) Hanger-on
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1) Bloodsucker 2) Drone 3) Ectoparasite 4) Ectozoan 5) Ectozoon 6) Endoparasite 7) Endoparasitic 8) Endozoan 9) Entoparasite 10) Entozoan 11) Entozoon 12) Epizoan 13) Epizoon 14) Freeloader 15) Hanger-on 16) Leech 17) Lounge lizard 18) Scoundrel 19) Sponge 20) Sponger 21) Toady 22) Louse
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An organism living in or on another living organism (host) from which it extracts nutrients.
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• (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 habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the...
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A plant that derives nourishment directly from another living plant.
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a plant which derives most or all of its food from another organisim to which it attaches itself
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An animal or plant that gets nutrients by living on or in an organism of another species. A complete parasite gets all of its nutrients from the host organism, but a semi-parasite gets only some of its nutrients from the host.
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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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<biology> An organism which obtains food and shelter from another organism (for example Giardia). ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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(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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a plant which derives most or all of its food from another organisim to which it attaches itself
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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 another's expense, and earns his welcome by flatt...
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An organism living in or on another living organism (host) and obtaining its food from the latter. May be harmful (i.e., pathogen) or beneficial (e.g., mycorrhizae).
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A parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism - known as the host. The host derives no benefit from the parasite, and is often manipulated and harmed by the parasite. Many parasites use intermediary hosts as stages on their journey to animals further up the food chain, and in doing so will manipulate he behaviour of the host. For e...
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(L/Gk: para beside, past, beyond; sitos=food; parasitos someone who eats at someone else's table) an organism living in or on another organism, the host, at the latter's expense, and without being of use in return.
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A plant or organism that lives on or in the host, deriving nourishment from it. Some cause inflammation, but others cause infection and destroy tissue. Human parasites include fungi, yeast, bacteria, protozoa, worms and viruses.
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A plant without chlorophyll that obtains its nutrients by tapping into the branches, stems or roots of living green plants
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a parasite gets benefit from another organism (host) but has a detrimental effect on that organism. Parasites do not kill their host directly.
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A living thing that feeds on or in another living thing, e.g. a malaria parasite
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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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an often harmful organism that lives in or on another organism. For example, fleas are parasites. So are ticks.
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An organism living in or on another and benefiting at the expense of the other. Often, though not always harmful to the host. Animal parasites include internal warms and external lice, mites, ticks etc.
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an animal (or plant) that must live on or in an organism of another species, from which it draws its nourishment.
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A parasite is an animal that lives on or within another animal (referred to as the host animal). A parasite either feeds on its host directly or on the food that the host ingests. In general, parasites tend to be much smaller than their host organisms. Parasites benefit from the relationship with a host while the host is weakened (but usually not k...
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an animal or plant that lives in or on a host
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