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Toadeater :: Toadeater (n.) A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer; a toady..

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

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

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) A parasite.

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

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

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..

Parasiticide :: Parasiticide (n.) Anything used to destroy parasites.

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

Sea Louse :: Sea louse () Any one of numerous species of isopod crustaceans of Cymothoa, Livoneca, and allied genera, mostly parasites on fishes..

Parasitical :: Parasitical (a.) Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.

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..

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

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