Definition of parasite

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Parasite (n.) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo..

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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..
Parasitism :: Parasitism (n.) The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.
Parasitical :: Parasitical (a.) Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.
Suppawn :: Supparasite (v. t.) To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite.
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..
Entophyte :: Entophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
Obsequious :: Obsequious (a.) Servilely or meanly attentive; compliant to excess; cringing; fawning; as, obsequious flatterer, parasite..
Dermatophyte :: Dermatophyte (n.) A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin..
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.) An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager..
Ectoparasite :: Ectoparasite (n.) Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite.
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..
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..
Parasite :: Parasite (n.) An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo..
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..
Glochidium :: Glochidium (n.) The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills..
Favus :: Favus (n.) A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite..
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..
Sponge :: Sponge (n.) One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.
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