-- describes fungi or bacteria that get their food by absorbing minerals, sugar and moisture from living organisms (plant or animal host) on which they grow
living on or in the organism of another species, known as the host, and obtaining nutrients from its body
{s} living on or inside another organism; obtaining its livelihood from another creature
To obtain nutrients necessary for life from another living organism For example, a mosquito is a parasite of warm-blooded animals, including humans
of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence"
disapproval If you describe a person or organization as parasitic, you mean that they get money or other things from people without doing anything in return
Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant
Parasitic diseases are caused by parasites. Will global warming mean the spread of tropical parasitic diseases?
A type of symbiosis where two (or more) organisms from different species live in close proximity to one another, in which one member depends on another for its nutrients, protection, and/or other life functions The dependent member (the parasite) benefits from the relationship while the other one (the host) is harmed by it