Parasite is valid Scrabble Word

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8 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for PARASITE in dictionary:

NOUN:

an organism that lives and feeds on another
a person who habitually relies on or exploits others and gives nothing in return
animal or plant living in or on another
One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another\'s expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.
A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.
A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.
An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.
An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.
An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.
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
an organism which lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an organism that lives and feeds on or in another organism

Words related to PARASITE

bonamia11 infestant12 parasites11 parasitic13

Words that contain PARASITE

parasites11 exoparasite20 ectoparasite16 endoparasite15 exoparasites21 hemiparasite19 semiparasite16 holoparasite17 ectoparasites17 endoparasites16 hemiparasites20 hyperparasite23 microparasite19 semiparasites17 holoparasites18 hyperparasites24 microparasites20

How to use PARASITE in a sentence

A parasite may be stamped out by destroying its germs, but a pathological product can only be annihilated by removing the conditions which give rise to it.
From Pioneer to Parasite So it happened that the first pioneers in the northern were forced to bare their arms and match their strength with the wooded wilderness.
I felt sure it was due to some parasite, though the Soldier thought the food responsible and changed it.
Meanwhile, the true stem of the parasite shoots upward from the crown of the palm.
With much care were inspected the mouth, the nostrils, the ears, and all the body, but no parasite was found.
The parasite plant, called the bandha, or Indian mistletoe, ornaments the finest mhowa and mango trees.
She was everything that is good in a parasite, nothing that is bad.
Although a parasite the plant springs every year from seed.
He procured the parasite from the lime trees at Hampton Court.
He has become a regular parasite a cold-blooded leech.

Don Antolin said rightly, he was no more than a parasite of the Cathedral, and having taken refuge in her lap, he owed her gratitude and silence.
This beautiful parasite covered the tree, and was very showy.
Thiers, was an historical parasite which lived on its past and could have no future.
Involuntary ones, we admit, and dearly purchased, because the said peerage is a huge parasite.
My life for thirty years had been that of a mere parasite.
We cannot suppose this to be a case of patron and parasite.
In diseases due to parasites, the parasite produces a change in the tissue in its immediate vicinity often so great as to result in the death of the cells.
It is an independent structure which, like a parasite, grows at the expense of the body, contributing nothing to it, and its capacity for growth is unlimited.
The parasite has also means of passive defence comparable to the armor of the warrior in the past.
In such cases there may be temporary immunity produced by each excursion of the disease, but the immunity is not permanent nor is the parasite destroyed.

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