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/pˌæɹəsˈɪtɪkəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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relating to or caused by parasites
parasitic infection -
of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another
a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses
bloodsucking blackmailer
parasitic vines that strangle the trees
his indolent leechlike existence
How To Use parasitical In A Sentence
- This parasitical plant has a trailing stem, not unlike the common ivy, but not so woody, by which it attaches itself to the trunks of trees, and sucks the moisture which their bark derives from the lichens and other cryptogamia, but without drawing nourishment from the tree itself, like the misletoe and loranthus. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
- The male anglerfish has no independent existence, but lives parasitically attached to the female. Mark C. Miller: Holy Mackerel! Amazing Fish Facts
- He sat at a table chaotic with books and papers, his typewriter a lonely sentinel of order; in the room, people came and went, acolytes, aspirants and hangers-on, some immensely talented, others merely parasitical.
- The Union Movement must submit to a purge, it must harshly discard the parasitical drones and rebuild the hive.
- Description: While conducting an archaeological dig on planet P3X-888, Dr. Daniel Jackson makes a remarkable discovery: a primordial Goa'uld symbiote, an ancient, predatory version of SG-1's parasitical enemies. Stargate SG-1 Watchathon - 'The First Ones' (S04E07)
- UPDATE: Scott and Bud have more thoughts on how "parasitical" the litblogosphere can be. Virtual Sweatshop : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
- The bunches of unripe berries picked from this parasitical climber of betel, palm and mango trees are dried in the sun to become peppercorn, the spice that was valued above all others.
- Most of the great monuments of ancient Rome were adapted in the middle Ages for re-use in some "parasitical" way related to their basic form and system. Chicken Wing
- Objective To know the population distribution of parasitical fleas on Rattus flavipectus and their seasonal variation in Yingjiang county.
- Indeed, the first stirrings of Egyptian nationalism took the form of a protest against the noxious, parasitical "Europeanism" of Khedive Ismail and his courtiers. The New World of Islam
