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Parasite

noun

An animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host.

A follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage. Synonyms: leech, sponge, sponger.

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"Parasite" Quotes from Famous Books

... English advertisements at the backs of native newspapers. St Xavier's boys sometimes brought them in by stealth to snigger over among their mates; for the language of the grateful patient recounting his symptoms is most simple and revealing. The Oorya, not unanxious to play off one parasite against the other, slunk away towards ...

— Kim • Rudyard Kipling

... That the stern battle of the seas might cease, And guard Leander to his love in peace. The Fates consent;—ay me, dissembling Fates! They show'd their favours to conceal their hates, And draw Leander on, lest seas too high Should stay his too obsequious destiny: Who like a fleering slavish parasite, In warping profit or a traitorous sleight, Hoops round his rotten body with devotes, And pricks his descant face full of false notes; Praising with open throat, and oaths as foul As his false heart, the beauty of an owl; Kissing his ...

— Hero and Leander and Other Poems • Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman

... in the ovary. Complete fusion occurs, and the minute embryo of a new plant immediately results. But for some time it is incapable of leading a separate existence, and, like the embryo mammal, it lives as a parasite upon its parent. By the parent it is provided with a protective wrapping, the seed coat, and beneath this the little embryo swells until it reaches a certain size, when as a ripe seed it severs its connection with the maternal ...

— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett

... own admission, at best 'you' are a false personality forcibly impressed on a helpless mind that never had a ghost of a chance. In effect, you are a parasite living on a host, the reincarnation of an ego that should be ...

— The Short Life • Francis Donovan

... parasite on the back of an ox ... having found out by actual measurement the circumference of the ox, and by mathematical calculation, the diameter of the ox, and having ascertained that as he inserted his proboscis into the hide of the animal, say the sixteenth ...

— The University of Michigan • Wilfred Shaw

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