Definition of Parasite

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Parasite

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.

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Parasite Quotations

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.
Anthony Trollope

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.
William Banting

The well-cared-for woman is a parasite, and the woman who must work is a slave.
Cora Anderson

Parasite Translations

parasite in Dutch is parasiet, klaploper
parasite in French is parasite
parasite in German is Parasit, Schmarotzer
parasite in Italian is parassita

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