Parasite

What do we mean by parasite?

An organism that lives and feeds on or in an organism of a different species and causes harm to its host. noun

One who habitually takes advantage of the generosity of others without making any useful return. noun

One who lives off and flatters the rich; a sycophant. noun

A professional dinner guest, especially in ancient Greece. noun

Originally, one who frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome by flattery; hence a hanger-on; a fawning fiatterer; a sycophant. noun

Specifically In zoö., an animal that lives in or on and at the expense of another animal called technically the host; also, by extension, an animal which lives on or with, but not at the expense of, its host: in the latter sense, more precisely designated inquilince or commensal (see these words). , Particularly, an insect which lives either upon or within another insect during its earlier stages, eating and usually destroying its host. In botany, a plant which grows upon another plant or upon an animal, and feeds upon its juices. See parasitic, and cut under Cercospora. noun

In teratology See autosite. noun

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. noun

A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte. noun

A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia. noun

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. noun

An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager. noun

An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo. noun

A (generally undesirable) living organism that exists by stealing the resources produced/collected by another living organism. noun

A person who relies on other people's efforts and gives little back (originally a sycophant). 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 noun

A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage noun

A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.

A sycophant or hanger-on.

An organism that lives on or in another organism of a different species, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.

A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.

A retainer or companion of an ancient Celtic warrior, who praised him in song or poetry at gatherings; a bard.

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Adjectives that are often used to describe parasite:
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Consonant match to parasite:
paris et, paris set, porous it.

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