parasite 的定义
- 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.
parasite 近义词
something that exists by taking from or depending on another
更多parasite例句
- 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.