| Parasite (parasite) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| Par"a*site |
| [F., fr. L.
parasitus, Gr. (?), lit., eating beside, or at the table of,
another; para` beside + (?) to feed, from (?) wheat, grain,
food.]
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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.
A plant
obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it
attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but
erroneously, called epiphyte.
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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