Parasite

Noun

 * 1)  A (generally undesirable) living organism that exists by stealing the resources produced/collected by another living organism.
 * ''Lice, fleas, ticks and mites are widely spread parasites.
 * 1)  A person who relies on other people's efforts and gives little back (originally a sycophant).

Antonyms

 * commensal

Related terms

 * parasitical
 * parasiticide
 * parasitism
 * parasitology
 * parasite drag

Adjectives for Parasite
harmless; business; tiny; formidable; smiling; smooth; detested; destructive; plant; social.

Verbs for Parasite
breed—; detest—; infest with —s; maintain —; nourish—; plague by —s; serve—; tend —; —absorbs; —attaches; —burrows into; —draws; —exacts; —fattens on; —flatters; —frequents; —lodges in; —penetrates; — robs; —sucks; —depends on.

Thesaurus
adherent, algae, appendage, attendance, attendant, autophyte, barnacle, bean, beat, bedbug, beggar, bloodsucker, body of retainers, bracken, brown algae, buff, bummer, cadger, cat flea, cavaliere servente, chigoe, climber, cockroach, cohort, conferva, confervoid, cortege, coupon clippers, court, courtier, crab, creeper, dangler, deadbeat, dependent, diatom, disciple, dog flea, drone, entourage, fan, fern, flea, flunky, follower, following, freeloader, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, grayback, green algae, gulfweed, hanger-on, henchman, herb, heterophyte, homme de cour, hyena, idle rich, idler, ivy, jackal, jigger, kelp, laze, leech, legume, leisure class, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, lounge lizard, louse, lumpen proletariat, mendicant, mite, mold, moocher, mosquito, moss, mushroom, nit, nonworker, panhandler, parasitic plant, parasitize, partisan, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, public, puffball, pulse, pursuer, pursuivant, red algae, red bug, rentiers, retinue, roach, rockweed, rout, rust, sand flea, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, satellite, scrounge, scrounger, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, sectary, shadow, smell-feast, smut, spiv, sponge, sponger, stooge, successor, succulent, sucker, suite, supporter, tagtail, tail, the unemployable, the unemployed, tick, toadstool, train, trainbearer, vermin, vetch, vine, votary, ward heeler, weevil, wood tick, wort, wrack

Etymology
From parasitus: <  παράσιτος: < noun use of adjective meaning "feeding beside" < παρά: + σῖτος:.

Translations

 * Arabic: طفيل
 * Bengali:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 寄生物, 寄生蟲, 寄生虫
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * French:
 * German:, Parasit
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, sníkjudýr
 * Ido:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 寄生虫
 * Kurdish: چڵکاوخۆر
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian: պորտաբույծ, ձրիակեր
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: parasiet, profiteur
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: sníkjudýr,
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish: هیچوپووچ
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:, parazită
 * Russian:, нахлебник, тунеядец, приживал
 * Serbian: gotovan, gotovanka
 * Swedish:


 * : parasiet
 * : 寄生生物 (jì shēng shēng wù)
 * : Parasit


 * : (1,2) παράσιτο (parasito), (1,2) παράσιτος (parasitos), (2) κηφήνας (drone) (kifinas)
 * : parasitus

Anagrams

 * aspirate
 * pastiera