How To Use Parasitical In A Sentence
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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
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The male anglerfish has no independent existence, but lives parasitically attached to the female.
Mark C. Miller: Holy Mackerel! Amazing Fish Facts
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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.
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The Union Movement must submit to a purge, it must harshly discard the parasitical drones and rebuild the hive.
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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)
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UPDATE: Scott and Bud have more thoughts on how "parasitical" the litblogosphere can be.
Virtual Sweatshop : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
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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.
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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
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Objective To know the population distribution of parasitical fleas on Rattus flavipectus and their seasonal variation in Yingjiang county.
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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
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These are common parasitical plants, originating in the production of copious filamentous threads, called the mycelium, or spawn.
The Book of Household Management
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(Paradoxically, the Jews also were accused of being Communists and followers of Rosa Luxemburg, while at the same time called parasitical capitalists.)
Les Leopold: Wall Street and Anti-Semitism
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(George would later apologize for his use of the term "parasitical".)
Jesuit: Obama is "the most effective spokesperson" for "the spirit of Vatican II"
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It is related to her prior infestation by the dominant parasitical species here.
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This claim often rides in parasitical fashion on the back of debunking claims - it can provide an explanation for why the speaker invests in their critique in the first place.
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It has often been popular to polemicize against what is seen as the more parasitical components of capitalism in times of difficulty.
Alan Miller: Is there a leader in the house? Anywhere?
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He needs to draw on other people's lives and there is something very parasitical about that.
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Egregium specimen dent, saith Erasmus, let them approve themselves worthy first, sufficiently qualified for learning and manners, before they presume or impudently intrude and put themselves on great men as too many do, with such base flattery, parasitical colloguing, such hyperbolical elogies they do usually insinuate that it is a shame to hear and see.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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It conducted important research on such endemic parasitical diseases as hookworm, malaria, and yellow fever.
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Wall Street is wrongly deemed "parasitical," he says.
TIME.com: Top Stories
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There have always been stealthy curriers of influence who parasitically attach themselves to powerful figures, sucking their life-bloods, and then by association becoming powerful themselves.
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Page 103 they have been humorously styled "parasitical," as being hangers-on or dependents.
The Confederate First Reader: Containing Selections in Prose and Poetry as Reading Exercises for the Younger Children in the Schools and Families of the Confederate States.
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These parasitical wasps help the farmers a lot. They can control the breeding of agricultural insects.
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Australia found twined round its boughs, the misletoe, with its many home associations -- the elegant cedar -- the close-growing mangrove -- and strange parasitical plants, pushing through huge fungi, and clasping with the remorseless strength of the wrestler, and with the round crunching folds of the boa, the trees they were gradually to supplant and destroy.
A Love Story
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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.
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The candiru feeds parasitically by burrowing into body orifices, jamming itself in place using barbs along its sides then drinking the blood of its victim.
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The Guru was opposed to mendicancy and parasitical living.
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These little beasts can take up residence in your gut and other assorted innards and live parasitically from you for many, many years.
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Eric thinks he's just God's gift to humanity (not to mention all women), but all he is is a low-down, parasitical by-blow of a cockroach and a worm.
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Even traditional patrols were flown now over uninhabited areas, to allow the current agitation about the "parasitical" Weyr to die down.
DragonFlight
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Both these parasitical forms of life are causing distress and hardship to average, hard-working Bermudians.
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The dodder is what is called a parasitical plant; that is, a plant that lives entirely on another.
Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn.
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They live parasitically in the body-cavity of echinoderms (Ophiura) and vermalia; they are distinguished by the fact that their primitive gut-cavity is not empty, but filled with entodermic cells, from which the sexual cells are developed.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
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It bears a very slimy white berry, of which birdlime may be made, whence its Latin name of _viscus_, It is one of those plants which do not grow in the ground by a root of their own, but fix themselves upon other plants; whence they have been humorously styled parasitical, as being hangers-on or dependants.
Types of Children's Literature
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It will require the latest techniques in medical science to separate Lakshmi from her "parasitical", headless, undeveloped "twin", which is joined to her body at the pelvis.
Twin Girl with Eight Limbs to Have Surgery | Impact Lab
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An arborescent fern was found by Forster in New Zealand in 46°, where orchideous plants are parasitical on the trees.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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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
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Forster in New Zealand in 46 degrees, where orchideous plants are parasitical on the trees.
The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002
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The Bengalese to the most extend are still resented and the Biharis looked upon as unwanted and almost parasitical.
The Question(s) of Gorkhaland by Barun Roy
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You never get the feeling that he loathes parasitical fat cats in the way he loathes men whose only sin is to be overly willing to rush into burning buildings and rescue complete strangers.
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the pawky rich old lady who incessantly scores off her parasitical descendants
