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[par-uh-sit-ik]

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adjective

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of parasites.

(of diseases) due to parasites.

Phonetics. excrescent (def. 2).

Also, par·a·sit·i·cal.

Origin:
1620–30; < Latin parasīticus < Greek parasītikós. See parasite, -ic

Related forms

par·a·sit·i·cal·ly, adverb

par·a·sit·i·cal·ness, noun

an·ti·par·a·sit·ic, noun, adjective

an·ti·par·a·sit·i·cal, adjective

an·ti·par·a·sit·i·cal·ly, adverb

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non·par·a·sit·ic, adjective

non·par·a·sit·i·cal, adjective

non·par·a·sit·i·cal·ly, adverb

pseu·do·par·a·sit·ic, adjective

un·par·a·sit·ic, adjective

un·par·a·sit·i·cal, adjective

un·par·a·sit·i·cal·ly, adverb

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Example Sentences

America's domestic and wild honeybees have taken a beating this year from a combination of parasitic mites and a bitter winter.

From fungi to flies, some parasitic species have figured out how to control their host's behavior to get what they need.

Parasitic wasps dive-bomb ants, injecting their eggs into ant bodies.

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America's domestic and wild honeybees have taken a beating this year from a combination of parasitic mites and a bitter winter.

From fungi to flies, some parasitic species have figured out how to control their host's behavior to get what they need.

Parasitic wasps dive-bomb ants, injecting their eggs into ant bodies.

New research shows that tiny female parasitic wasps are able to change the smell of the plants they live in to attract a mate.

In the spring, parasitic flies lay their eggs inside woolly bears.

It's easy to list every vaccine that can prevent a parasitic disease in humans.

Four years later, he established the parasitic disease control program at the agency.

They then did the same thing for the number of parasitic diseases found in each country.

Apart from coots and related rails, only ostriches and weaverbirds can detect parasitic eggs left by their own species.

Cowbirds are a parasitic species that lay eggs in the nests of.

To kill larvae, drench lawns with parasitic nematodes.

The parasitic disease is transmitted by the female phlebotomine sand fly, the bites leave disfiguring skin sores.

Ukraine must shift from a parasitic state that extracts rents to a modern state that provides services.

Humans develop river blindness from the bite of the blackfly, which deposits parasitic worms that burrow into the skin.

If that's not enough, there are also other parasitic wasps that use the fig fruit, though they do no pollinize.

Spiders trap adult moths in their webs, and parasitic wasps prey on the young larvae.

As far as parasitic diseases go, the death toll from trypanosome infections is second only to malaria.

In the wild, these parasitic wasps cruise the landscape seeking out insect targets.

Agricultural scientists have also looked at controlling fruit flies with parasitic wasps.

The study shows there are two pointers that enable wrens to discriminate against parasitic chicks.

If there is a niche in the ecosystem that isn't filled then these parasitic fungus have a new home.

For instance, rats carrying the parasitic protozoan.

If you find grubs, treat your lawn with beneficial parasitic nematodes.

Almost any statement about the role of parasitic viruses is speculation.

Cued by the additive, the plant swiftly alters the chemistry of its leaf surface to beckon female parasitic wasps.

The vast majority of government jobs are parasitic to the economy.

The scientists catalogued and weighed all of the plants, animals and parasitic species living in three river estuaries.

The hydraulic power-steering pump was ditched in favor of an electric unit to cut parasitic drag on the engine.

Then an infectious-disease doctor diagnosed a parasitic infection, continuing to treat it even as the symptoms kept getting worse.

They are a pallid, parasitic sort of thing whose fungal relatives infest your feet.

Female parasitic wasps lay their eggs on the caterpillars.

She could have had inflammation from common parasitic diseases.

The diagnosis was an abscess caused by a parasitic infection, toxoplasmosis.

It constricts innovation, and makes it a dependent parasitic life-form.

Parasitic roundworms receive the distress signal loud and.

Get rid of this self serving parasitic organization.

The female fly picks up parasitic worm larvae when it feeds on the blood of an infected animal or person.

Let's all pray the parasitic aggregators don't eventually drive the real journalists out of business.

The loss of digestives systems in parasitic worms because their food is already digested is evolution.

Treatment includes medications that paralyze or kill intestinal parasitic worms, such as albendazole or mebendazole.

Europeans are experiencing an epiphany as to the inherent limitations of government, and the dangers of parasitic socialism.

Haustoria are also used by parasitic fungi that penetrate their plant hosts.

When the parasitic chick hatches, it wouldn't want to interfere with the efforts of its unwitting foster parents to.

While financial innovation boosts the income of a happy parasitic minority, it is mainly a drag on the rest of us.

Yanoviak sliced open such a gaster in the lab and found it was full of the eggs of a parasitic nematode, or roundworm.

Fleeced right and left, they confront the ultimate in corruption-a group of parasitic dilettantes.

Eventually, the parasitic dodder feeds on all the nutrients of the host plant, and the host plant dies.

He is instead the martyred victim of a greedy, parasitic bourgeois society symbolized by his father.

During its life cycle, the parasitic trematode depends on several hosts, including pond snails.

Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease spread by biting sand flies.

Eventually the parasitic caterpillar pupates, later emerging as an adult butterfly.

But then an individual was misdiagnosed as having amebic dysentery, a parasitic infection.

In the case of the devils, however, the transplanted material is cancer cells capable of taking on a parasitic life of their own.

Parasitic sea lice there prey on juvenile wild salmon when they swim past the pens on their way from inland rivers to the ocean.

Parasitic insects that attack the coffee berry borers aren't always effective or easy to rear.

The idea of parasitic mind control was especially interesting.

When faced with the threat of parasitic fungi, the rotifers dry up and allow themselves to be blown away by the wind.

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World English Dictionary

parasite (ˈpærəˌsaɪt)

—n
1.	an animal or plant that lives in or on another (the host) from which it obtains nourishment. The host does not benefit from the association and is often harmed by it
2.	a person who habitually lives at the expense of others; sponger
3.	(formerly) a sycophant

[C16: via Latin from Greek parasitos one who lives at another's expense, from para-¹ + sitos grain]

parasitic

—*adj*

para'sitical

—*adj*

para'sitically

—*adv*

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parasitic par·a·sit·ic (pār'ə-sĭt'ĭk) or par·a·sit·i·cal (-ĭ-kəl)
adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of a parasite.
Caused by a parasite.

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