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Parasitic plant   /pˌɛrəsˈɪtɪk plænt/   Listen
Parasitic plant

noun
1.
Plant living on another plant and obtaining organic nutriment from it.





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... part in it, on the magistrates, the jury, the parties, even the public who were spectators; but the most incurable wounds were inflicted on justice by the doings of the advocates. In proportion as the parasitic plant of Roman forensic eloquence flourished, all positive ideas of right became broken up; and the distinction, so difficult of apprehension by the public, between opinion and evidence was in reality expelled from the Roman criminal practice. ...
— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen


Words linked to "Parasitic plant" :   Nuytsia floribunda, flame tree, family Loranthaceae, Arceuthobium pusillum, American mistletoe, fire tree, Old World mistletoe, Loranthus europaeus, mistletoe family, buffalo nut, semiparasite, mistletoe, rabbitwood, Pyrularia pubera, parasite yew, Christmas tree, buckleya, Parasitaxus ustus, bastard toadflax, Buckleya distichophylla, hemiparasite, parasite, Comandra pallida, false mistletoe, Viscum album, Loranthaceae


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