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Lick-spittle :: Lick-spittle (n.) An abject flatterer or parasite.

Ringworm :: Ringworm (n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton)..

Echinococcus :: Echinococcus (n.) A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Taenia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog..

Mesozoa :: Mesozoa (n. pl.) A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata..

Psorosperm :: Psorosperm (n.) A minute parasite, usually the young of Gregarinae, in the pseudonavicula stage..

Rhizocephala :: Rhizocephala (n. pl.) A division of Pectostraca including saclike parasites of Crustacea. They adhere by rootlike extensions of the head. See Illusration in Appendix.

Epozoic :: Epozoic (a.) Living upon the exterior of another animal; ectozoic; -- said of external parasites.

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

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.

Dermatophyte :: Dermatophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin..

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) 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..

Water Mite :: Water mite () Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachna and allied genera of the family Hydrachnidae, usually having the legs fringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and black in color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects and mussels. Called also water tick, and water spider..

Helminth :: Helminth (n.) An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes..

Parasite :: Parasite (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..

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager..

Suppawn :: Supparasite (v. t.) To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite.

Parasitical :: Parasitical (a.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3..

Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process by which many internal parasites, esp. in their larval states, become inclosed within a cyst in the muscles, liver, etc. See Trichina..

Endoparasite :: Endoparasite (n.) Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozoon..

Parasite :: Parasite (n.) A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia..

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