Parasitic

What do we mean by parasitic?

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a parasite. adjective

Caused by a parasite. adjective

Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for bread or favors; meanly dependent; acting the sycophant; like a parasite in any way; of things, secondary; subordinated to or arising from another thing of the same kind.

Specifically In zoology and botany, living or growing as a parasite; pertaining to or characteristic of parasites. See cut under Orobanche.

In philology, attached to a word erroneously or by false analogy: thus, d in vulgar drownd, t in margent, etc., are parasitic.

In ornithology, applied to birds which place their eggs in the nests of other birds.

Having the characters of the Parasitica.

Of the nature of a parasite; having the habits of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. adjective

Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3. adjective

See Jager. adjective

Pertaining to a biological or symbolic parasite. adjective

Drawing upon another organism for sustenance. adjective

Exploiting another for personal gain. adjective

Component of a circuit that does not show up in a circuit's schematic but does show up in the circuit's behavior. noun

Of or pertaining to epenthesis adjective

Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another adjective

Relating to or caused by parasites adjective

A component of a circuit that does not show up in a circuit's schematic but does show up in the circuit's behavior.

Words that are spelled similarly to parasitic:
parasitic, paralitic, parasite, parasitism, parasites, paralytic, parasitize, parasita, parasitoid, parabiotic, paradisic, parasital, parasit, parasitise, parotitic, parasitica, marcasitic.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word parasitic:
flatworm, roundworm, rafflesia, trematode, copepod, phylum, nematode, protozoa, protozoan, schistosomiasis, tapeworm, capacitance, grouper, inductance, mites, mite, hymenoptera, worms, wasps, mistletoe, barnacles, wasp, parasites, infect, parasitism, ticks, worm, fluke, parasite, gills, lice, infestation, plasmodium, fungi, fungus, cuckoo, symbiotic, lyme, intestinal, larva, arthropods, intestine, vertebrates, oscillation, pathogens, infection, capacitor, cones, gaps, drag, diseases, ants, brood, fishes, larvae, malaria, vertebrate, spp, genus, insects, fungal, insect, organisms, flies, predatory, organism, genera, algae, bees, eggs, nutrients, infected, nests, host, pest, cone, hosts, snails, attach, flowering, immune, ant, bacteria, disease, gastropod, species, hazard, nest, plants, snail, extraction, mammals, vine, feeds, egg, tuberculosis, transmitted, reproduction, beetle, belonging.

Words that rhyme with parasitic:
critic, semitic, diacritic, analytic, neritic, catalytic, paralytic, dendritic, arthritic, granitic, hemolytic, hermaphroditic, psychoanalytic, electrolytic, cushitic, porphyritic, citic, thrombolytic, hamitic, palmitic, halophytic, chittick, newspaper critic, drama critic, music critic, theater critic, bittick, svitak, soditic, zitek.

Adjectives that are often used to describe parasitic:
larvae, new, fungi, non, small, most, few, large, copepoda, ciliate, first, several, important, common, obligately, monogenetic, only, flagellate, larva, certain, favored, gregarine, less, culturally, intestinal, mycelium, smallest, best, minute, facultative, olpidium, much, largest, worms, very, third, greater, larval, passive, dodder, glacier, mistletoe, nematode, undesirable, protozoa, bacterial, lac, worst, marine, barnacle, vertical, coccidia, filterable.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective parasitic:
diseases, infections, worms, infection, nematodes, disease, capacitance, fungi, species, forms, plants, capacitances, protozoa, organisms, insects, elements, infestation, infestations, wasps, life, fungus, effects, existence, nature, plant, growth, worm, animals, gaps, hymenoptera, resistance, oscillations, bacteria, cysts, class, relationship, copepods, origin, habit, wasp, helminths, mode, organism, habits, element, nematode, inductance, larvae, flatworms, mites, growths, resistances, invasion, flies, phase, theory, affections, transistor, oscillation, cones, agents, castration, losses, gap, stage, stages, weeds, crustaceans, insect, fly, protozoans, classes, eggs, animal, females, microorganisms, currents, components, transistors, copepoda, capacitors, copepod, load, drag, protozoan, larva, arthropods, cycle, males, enemies, modes, female.

Consonant match to parasitic:
pyroacetic.

Words that sound like parasitic:
parasitic, paralytic, parasitical, parasit, parasitically, paramedic, paretic, pyretic, periotic, parasite, parasites, peristaltic, prosodic, parasite yew, pederastic, piratic, parasitize, patristic, prophetic, periodic, prosthetic, parametric, parisite, prothetic, puristic, pyrectic, parasitism, parachuting, prostatic, paresis, peristyle, parodic, park city, peristole, peripety, prussic, parasitoid, port city, perthitic, pruritic, parasitic worm.