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Definition of parasite
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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..
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Sponge
::
Sponge
(n.) One who lives upon
others;
a
pertinaceous
and
indolent
dependent;
a
parasite;
a
sponger.
Fly
::
Fly (v. i.) A
parasite.
Pupipara
::
Pupipara
(n. pl.) A
division
of
Diptera
in which the young are born in a stage like the pupa. It
includes
the sheep tick, horse tick, and other
parasites.
Called
also
Homaloptera..
Parasitism
::
Parasitism
(n.) The state or
behavior
of a
parasite;
the act of a
parasite.
Trematodea
::
Trematodea
(n. pl.) An
extensive
order of
parasitic
worms.
They are found in the
internal
cavities
of
animals
belonging
to all
classes.
Many
species
are
found,
also, on the gills and skin of
fishes.
A few
species
are
parasitic
on man, and some, of which the fluke is the most
important,
are
injurious
parasites
of
domestic
animals.
The
trematodes
usually
have a
flattened
body
covered
with a
chitinous
skin, and are
furnished
with two or more
suckers
for
adhesion.
Most of the
species
are
hermaphrodi
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..
Toadeater
::
Toadeater
(n.) A
fawning,
obsequious
parasite;
a mean
sycophant;
a
flatterer;
a
toady..
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)..
Sycophant
::
Sycophant
(n.) A base
parasite;
a mean or
servile
flatterer;
especially,
a
flatterer
of
princes
and great men..
Epozoic
::
Epozoic
(a.)
Living
upon the
exterior
of
another
animal;
ectozoic;
-- said of
external
parasites.
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..
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..
Supercrescent
::
Supercrescence
(n.) That which grows upon
another
growing
thing;
a
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..
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..
Nidus
::
Nidus (n.) A nest: a
repository
for the eggs of
birds,
insects,
etc.; a
breeding
place;
esp., the place or
substance
where
parasites
or the germs of a
disease
effect
lodgment
or are
developed..
Mesozoa
::
Mesozoa
(n. pl.) A group of very lowly
organized,
wormlike
parasites,
including
the
Dicyemata.
They are found in
cephalopods.
See
Dicyemata..
Parasite
::
Parasite
(n.) An
animal
which
steals
the food of
another,
as the
parasitic
jager..
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..
Sucker
::
Sucker
(n.) A
parasite;
a
sponger.
See def. 6,
above..
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