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parasite

/par-uh-sahyt/US // ˈpær əˌsaɪt //UK // (ˈpærəˌsaɪt) //

寄生虫,寄生者,寄生物,寄生生物

Related Words

sycophant跟屁虫,跟班,附庸风雅,跟班的stooge傀儡,走狗,狗腿子,附庸风雅dependent依赖的,依赖性,依赖性的,依靠的sucker棒棒糖,棒棒哒,棒糖,棒棒棒deadbeat死气沉沉的人,死气沉沉的家伙,死鬼,跛脚的人sponge海棉,海綿,海绵barnacle藤壶groupie团员,群居者,群众,群居动物bloodsucker吸血者,吸血虫,吸血人,吸血僵尸idler怠速器,怠工,闲人,怠速freeloader自由职业者,白吃白喝的人,白吃白喝者,白吃白喝flunky矮胖子,矮子,矮人,矮小的人hanger-on食客,门客,食客们leech水蛭,蛭子,蛭,蚂蟥taker收银员,收银机,摄取者,收银台scrounger拾荒者,蹭吃蹭喝的人,蹭吃蹭喝,乞丐bootlicker马屁精,拍马屁的人,拍马屁者,马屁精们

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
    • : a person who receives support, advantage, or the like, from another or others without giving any useful or proper return, as one who lives on the hospitality of others: They are greedy politicians, parasites with their snouts in the public trough.
    • : a person who received free meals in return for amusing or impudent conversation, flattering remarks, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsomething that exists by taking from or depending on another
Forms: parasites
Synonyms
barnacle藤壶bloodsucker吸血者,吸血虫,吸血人,吸血僵尸bootlicker马屁精,拍马屁的人,拍马屁者,马屁精们deadbeat死气沉沉的人,死气沉沉的家伙,死鬼,跛脚的人dependent依赖的,依赖性,依赖性的,依靠的flunky矮胖子,矮子,矮人,矮小的人freeloader自由职业者,白吃白喝的人,白吃白喝者,白吃白喝groupie团员,群居者,群众,群居动物hanger-on食客,门客,食客们idler怠速器,怠工,闲人,怠速leech水蛭,蛭子,蛭,蚂蟥scrounger拾荒者,蹭吃蹭喝的人,蹭吃蹭喝,乞丐sponge海棉,海綿,海绵stooge傀儡,走狗,狗腿子,附庸风雅sucker棒棒糖,棒棒哒,棒糖,棒棒棒sycophant跟屁虫,跟班,附庸风雅,跟班的taker收银员,收银机,摄取者,收银台

Examples

  • Now, new research on the genetic instruction book of this rare plant reveals the lengths to which it has gone to become a specialized parasite.

  • Scientific findings reported this year that still need more proof include potential signs of life on Venus and Earth’s oldest parasites.

  • Ditching energy-expensive traits, or “reductive evolution,” is a common theme in parasites, Meyer noted.

  • Pandas are known to cover themselves in natural scents, which may ward off parasites or act as a territorial signal.

  • During Africa’s dry season, when mosquitoes are scarce, malaria parasites have a hard time spreading to new hosts.

  • The film reaches its climax when Temple is felled by giardia, a parasite that infects the small intestine.

  • It was Italian doctors who proved that the parasite was carried by mosquitoes.

  • Al Qaeda is a parasite that feeds on social instability and turmoil.

  • All of this feeds a caricature of Washington as a parasite on the real economy.

  • A single platelet lying upon a red corpuscle may easily be mistaken for a malarial parasite (Plate VI).

  • The spirillum of relapsing fever can be identified by the method for the malarial parasite in fresh blood.

  • With the tertian parasite, the segments more frequently form an irregular cluster.

  • If a parasite does not make him laugh, he perhaps does not please him, and therefore must be dismissed.

  • If a parasite cannot exist outside animal tissues, it is an obligatory parasite; if it can, it is a facultative saphrophyte.

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