parasite
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈpærəˌsaɪt/
- Specialized
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parásito
- After hiking in the woods, she discovered that she had picked up a parasite from a tick bite.
- intestinal parasite
- malaria parasite
- parasite infection
Pork pigs are they, they, they carry parasites more than any other animal.
- Pork pigs are they, they, they carry parasites more than any other animal.
- In some cases it is a parasite, a manipulator of sexual biology.
- And your solution would be fix your diet, get rid of parasites.
- Actual stuff like the life cycle of a parasite.
- This is known as the leaf minor parasite.
- If you think about this, Ivermectin is a medication that kills off parasites.
- And these are parasites that live in the soil, and they feed on bad bugs.
- So, oh, I've, you know, they, they cultured this microbe or they found a parasite.
Examples
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With wider use of antimalarial drugs, the malaria parasite also began to change.
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A crew member was brought back on board with something attached to his face, some kind of parasite.
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The doctor said she ate something with a parasite in it.
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Since more than half of the species on Earth are parasites, it could be more than we think.
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Parasite eggs, expelled in feces, are the only external living stage of the parasite life cycle.
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The doctor says a parasite in my intestine causes the dysentery.
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As the climate changes, insects and other parasites like ticks change their habitat and spread diseases.
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Another example of a parasite is one that attacks ungulates, deer, moose, elk.
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The doctor diagnosed him with a parasite that was causing his stomach pain.
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The parasite feeds off its host without providing any benefits in return.
Synonyms
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9.2
A living thing that lives on or in another living thing and harms it
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A very small single cell that lives in human blood, spreads by mosquito bites and causes malaria
- UK
A rare endangered tree from New Caledonia that grows on another tree and takes food and water from it
How Dependent
Surface Forms
Etymology
Parasite comes from Greek parts para- ('beside', as in parallel) and sitos ('food'), and it originally pictured someone who ate at another person's table. So a parasite in nature is an animal or plant that lives on or in another creature and takes its food from that host.