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Tristoma :: Tristoma (n.) Any one of numerous species of trematode worms belonging to Tristoma and allied genera having a large posterior sucker and two small anterior ones. They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and are parasite on the gills and skin of fishes..

Tachina :: Tachina (n.) Any one of numerous species of Diptera belonging to Tachina and allied genera. Their larvae are external parasites of other insects.

Epiphyte :: Epiphyte (n.) A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

Nematoidea :: Nematoidea (n. pl.) An order of worms, having a long, round, and generally smooth body; the roundworms. they are mostly parasites. Called also Nematodea, and Nematoda..

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..

Favus :: Favus (n.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite..

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..

Smell-feast :: Smell-feast (n.) One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.

Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A parasite; a sponger. See def. 6, above..

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

Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

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

Parasita :: Parasita (n. pl.) A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata..

Glochidium :: Glochidium (n.) The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills..

Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite..

Parasital :: Parasital (a.) Of or pertaining to parasites; parasitic.

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

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

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.

Siphonostomata :: Siphonostomata (n. pl.) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood..

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