Definition of parasitic in English:

parasitic

adjective parəˈsɪtɪkˌpɛrəˈsɪdɪk

1(of an organism) living as a parasite.
（生物体）寄生的
mistletoe is parasitic on trees
槲寄生是寄生在树上的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Many parasitic insects lay their eggs in fertilized ovules so that their young can feed on the starches, fats, and proteins within.
- In vitro infection of host roots by differentiated calli of the parasitic plant Orobanche was also achieved in O. ramosa.
- Genetic parentage analyses provide a powerful approach to answering a variety of questions about parasitic birds.
- His most influential and widely cited works concern the interactions between parasitic birds and their hosts, in particular the evolution of host defenses to brood parasitism.
- I never knew that mistletoe was a parasitic plant that grew off a host tree.
- In addition, Emberizids are hosts for brown-headed cowbirds, a parasitic species of bird that lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species.
- Cowbird nestlings were placed into nests prior to the hatching of host nestlings to simulate the shorter incubation periods characteristic of parasitic species.
- For example, in some of the parasitic species, the males infiltrate ants while the females take up residence in grasshoppers.
- Since viruses are parasitic on cellular life, the first life could not have been anything like a virus.
- The Bronzed Cowbird is an obligate brood parasitic species of songbird, ranging from the southern border region of the United States as far south as Central America.
- They say that the parasitic plant which grows on nettles is nationally scarce and grows on only 100 sites across the country.
- The microorganisms that Werren studies are parasitic bacteria that survive by changing the reproductive process in their hosts.
- While Epifagus and Orobanche totally lack chlorophyll and therefore photosynthetic ability, there are some genera of parasitic plants that appear to be in the process of losing the ability to photosynthesize.
- For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species?
- Some species are parasitic on insects, plants and animals, including man.
- Moreover, females with two parasitic species laid eggs later than those with only one parasitic species.
- In place of pesticides, organic growers employ biological controls such as predatory and parasitic insects and bacteria, all of which effectively control pests in growing flowers.
- Nevertheless, growing these parasitic plants in vitro is difficult, because of their dependence on a connection to hosts for normal development, and because of their specific germination requirements.
- Some facultative parasitic plants such as Rhinanthus minor appear to have functional photosynthetic apparatus and can grow without a host providing reduced carbon.
- We had to prune off the clade that includes all parasitic species from the tree before the analysis.
1. 1.1 Resulting from infestation by a parasite.
  寄生物感染的
  mortality from parasitic diseases
  寄生性病害的死亡率。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I suspect that their electronic ‘portfolio’ of clinical questions would be more useful than sitting through conferences on parasitic diseases.
  Since then almost 30 years have passed and it is learnt that the control of parasitic diseases require sustained efforts from all partners.
  If parasites - or their eggs - are seen when a smear of stool is examined under the microscope, the child will be treated for a parasitic infestation.
  The most common symptoms encountered in patients with eosinophilia were fatigue, diarrhea, or skin lesions suspicious for parasitic infection.
  Malnutrition, parasitic infestations, maternal and child morbidity and drug abuse are more important priorities and reflect on the allocation of resources for mental health services.
  The goal of this study is to identify key environmental changes resulting from urbanization that influence outbreaks of parasitic diseases.
  We're talking here about a parasitic disease, so this is not a bacterium or a virus, it's a parasite that goes through different life cycles.
  It therefore becomes enlarged in some infective, parasitic, and blood diseases.
  On the other hand, pathological conditions are marked by gall-like swellings and vermiform borings on exoskeletons that are thought to have been caused by diseases or parasitic infestation.
  It is a protozoal parasitic disease prevalent worldwide, its prevalence varying according to dietary preferences in any country.
  An estimated 6 million people worldwide have taken ivermectin for various parasitic infestations.
  Let's now turn our attention to the subject of parasitic infestations of the CNS.
  Scabies is a contagious parasitic infection caused by infestation of the Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis mite.
  And certainly in developed countries there are plenty of cases of bacterial and viral, and parasitic disease that cannot be adequately described and explained at the time it occurs.
  Although older texts emphasized parasitic infestation, this is a rare cause of pruritus ani except for pinworms in children.
  Scabies and lice are examples of parasitic infestations.
  She has been involved with research and clinical aspects of the immunodiagnosis of parasitic diseases for 35 years.
  It is essential to consider both operational and economic feasibility of any intervention to control parasitic diseases apart from its effectiveness so as to make decisions more rationally.
  Public health agencies focused their activities on infectious diseases, especially vaccine preventable and endemic parasitic diseases.
  Of all the parasitic diseases, leishmaniasis is considered the most likely to succumb to vaccination.
2derogatory Habitually relying on or exploiting others.
〈贬〉过寄生生活的
attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries
对党的官员们寄生生活的抨击。
Example sentencesExamples
- The second myth The Economist wanted do dispel was the misapprehension that blogs are essentially parasitic on other media.
- After the princes and their state had subordinated the church, sometimes in violent conflicts, it was allowed to keep its privileged and parasitic existence.
- In other words, the profits obtained by these institutions are the result of essentially parasitic activity.
- Such music fests do not exist outside of a parasitic capitalist and Mafia-styled exploitive capitalist paradigm that is financed by the American government with American tax payer money.
- One explanation for the existence of parasitic mating tactics may be that dominant males exclude subordinate males from using the bourgeois mating tactic.
- Even telemarketers aren't so parasitic, though their intrusiveness is often considered worse.
- It also details the parasitic activities of individual officials who live a relatively privileged existence based on extortion, bribery and other forms of corruption.
- Wages could also be higher than elsewhere in the economy as the bloodsucking, parasitic capitalist is not there demanding his piece of the action.
- One of the many things the film is about is the essentially parasitic relationship that writers have with their subjects.
- Fourthly, there has been extensive debate as to whether it is liberalism that generates the peace or whether, in a reversal of the causal chain, liberalism is parasitic upon the peace that is already in existence.
- Political blogs need the press; they are parasitic on the flow of news.
- He and Carlyle relied heavily on the parasitic rhetoric.
- Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system.
- Revisionism is an historical discipline made necessary by the fact that all States are governed by a ruling class that is a minority of the population, and which subsists as a parasitic and exploitative burden upon the rest of society.
- At the same time, the parasitic state-owned enterprises continue to suck the blood out of the economy.
- We can have many reasons for our conservational efforts - not all of which are parasitic on our own living standards and some of which turn precisely on our sense of values and of fiduciary responsibility.
- The lawyers, often personal injury lawyers, are jolted out of their parasitic and banal existence by the novelty of an innocent and deserving client.
- Universities are economically parasitic, relying on external support.
- His parasitic exploitation of Ella does not stop until she is completely drained of memory, language, and finally, sanity.
Synonyms
exploitative, parasitical
informal bloodsucking, sponging, freeloading
3Phonetics
(of a speech sound) inserted without etymological justification (e.g. the b in thimble); epenthetic.
〔语音〕（没有词源根据的）插音的，增音的

Derivatives

parasitical

adjective

He sat at a table chaotic with books and papers, his typewriter a lonely sentinel of order; in the room, people came and went, acolytes, aspirants and hangers-on, some immensely talented, others merely parasitical.
Example sentencesExamples
- You never get the feeling that he loathes parasitical, state-welching fat cats in the way he loathes men whose only sin is to be overly willing to rush into burning buildings and rescue complete strangers.
- He needs to draw on other people's lives and there is something very parasitical about that.
- This claim often rides in parasitical fashion on the back of debunking claims - it can provide an explanation for why the speaker invests in their critique in the first place.
- On the third hand, it could be argued that a largely parasitical underclass living on welfare and crime thrives only in big cities and ‘get out the vote’ drives do end up with a lot of them voting Democrat.

parasitically

adverb ˌparəˈsɪtɪkliˌpɛrəˈsɪdək(ə)li

They aren't journalism - indeed to be quite frank we bloggers parasitically feed off traditional journalism don't we?
Example sentencesExamples
- Probably because the pose suggests that she's able to sit on her own, when in fact she is leaning parasitically on her Mama.
- In the tracking shot, the viewer becomes a ghostly guest moving parasitically along with the all-knowing camera as the space of the filmic world is mapped.
- In doing so, it revealed its weakness, prompting other nations to pick, parasitically, at America's weakness for their own short-term gains.
- The Fine Art tradition today does not live symbiotically with design: it lives parasitically off of the communicative and vital language established by design.

Origin

Early 17th century: via Latin from Greek parasitikos, from parasitos '(person) eating at another's table'.

Rhymes

analytic, anchoritic, anthracitic, arthritic, bauxitic, calcitic, catalytic, critic, cryptanalytic, Cushitic, dendritic, diacritic, dioritic, dolomitic, enclitic, eremitic, hermitic, lignitic, mephitic, paralytic, psychoanalytic, pyritic, Sanskritic, saprophytic, Semitic, sybaritic, syenitic, syphilitic, troglodytic

Definition of parasitic in US English:

parasitic

adjectiveˌpɛrəˈsɪdɪkˌperəˈsidik

1(of an organism) living as a parasite.
（生物体）寄生的
mistletoe is parasitic on trees
槲寄生是寄生在树上的。
Example sentencesExamples
- Cowbird nestlings were placed into nests prior to the hatching of host nestlings to simulate the shorter incubation periods characteristic of parasitic species.
- In addition, Emberizids are hosts for brown-headed cowbirds, a parasitic species of bird that lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species.
- The microorganisms that Werren studies are parasitic bacteria that survive by changing the reproductive process in their hosts.
- Moreover, females with two parasitic species laid eggs later than those with only one parasitic species.
- I never knew that mistletoe was a parasitic plant that grew off a host tree.
- For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species?
- Since viruses are parasitic on cellular life, the first life could not have been anything like a virus.
- In vitro infection of host roots by differentiated calli of the parasitic plant Orobanche was also achieved in O. ramosa.
- For example, in some of the parasitic species, the males infiltrate ants while the females take up residence in grasshoppers.
- His most influential and widely cited works concern the interactions between parasitic birds and their hosts, in particular the evolution of host defenses to brood parasitism.
- Some facultative parasitic plants such as Rhinanthus minor appear to have functional photosynthetic apparatus and can grow without a host providing reduced carbon.
- We had to prune off the clade that includes all parasitic species from the tree before the analysis.
- Some species are parasitic on insects, plants and animals, including man.
- They say that the parasitic plant which grows on nettles is nationally scarce and grows on only 100 sites across the country.
- Many parasitic insects lay their eggs in fertilized ovules so that their young can feed on the starches, fats, and proteins within.
- Genetic parentage analyses provide a powerful approach to answering a variety of questions about parasitic birds.
- Nevertheless, growing these parasitic plants in vitro is difficult, because of their dependence on a connection to hosts for normal development, and because of their specific germination requirements.
- The Bronzed Cowbird is an obligate brood parasitic species of songbird, ranging from the southern border region of the United States as far south as Central America.
- In place of pesticides, organic growers employ biological controls such as predatory and parasitic insects and bacteria, all of which effectively control pests in growing flowers.
- While Epifagus and Orobanche totally lack chlorophyll and therefore photosynthetic ability, there are some genera of parasitic plants that appear to be in the process of losing the ability to photosynthesize.
1. 1.1 Resulting from infestation by a parasite.
  寄生物感染的
  mortality from parasitic diseases
  寄生性病害的死亡率。
  Example sentencesExamples
  An estimated 6 million people worldwide have taken ivermectin for various parasitic infestations.
  Of all the parasitic diseases, leishmaniasis is considered the most likely to succumb to vaccination.
  It therefore becomes enlarged in some infective, parasitic, and blood diseases.
  She has been involved with research and clinical aspects of the immunodiagnosis of parasitic diseases for 35 years.
  On the other hand, pathological conditions are marked by gall-like swellings and vermiform borings on exoskeletons that are thought to have been caused by diseases or parasitic infestation.
  It is a protozoal parasitic disease prevalent worldwide, its prevalence varying according to dietary preferences in any country.
  Although older texts emphasized parasitic infestation, this is a rare cause of pruritus ani except for pinworms in children.
  Scabies is a contagious parasitic infection caused by infestation of the Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis mite.
  If parasites - or their eggs - are seen when a smear of stool is examined under the microscope, the child will be treated for a parasitic infestation.
  I suspect that their electronic ‘portfolio’ of clinical questions would be more useful than sitting through conferences on parasitic diseases.
  Malnutrition, parasitic infestations, maternal and child morbidity and drug abuse are more important priorities and reflect on the allocation of resources for mental health services.
  The most common symptoms encountered in patients with eosinophilia were fatigue, diarrhea, or skin lesions suspicious for parasitic infection.
  It is essential to consider both operational and economic feasibility of any intervention to control parasitic diseases apart from its effectiveness so as to make decisions more rationally.
  Public health agencies focused their activities on infectious diseases, especially vaccine preventable and endemic parasitic diseases.
  Since then almost 30 years have passed and it is learnt that the control of parasitic diseases require sustained efforts from all partners.
  The goal of this study is to identify key environmental changes resulting from urbanization that influence outbreaks of parasitic diseases.
  We're talking here about a parasitic disease, so this is not a bacterium or a virus, it's a parasite that goes through different life cycles.
  And certainly in developed countries there are plenty of cases of bacterial and viral, and parasitic disease that cannot be adequately described and explained at the time it occurs.
  Scabies and lice are examples of parasitic infestations.
  Let's now turn our attention to the subject of parasitic infestations of the CNS.
2. 1.2derogatory Habitually relying on or exploiting others.
  〈贬〉过寄生生活的
  attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries
  对党的官员们寄生生活的抨击。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Political blogs need the press; they are parasitic on the flow of news.
  One of the many things the film is about is the essentially parasitic relationship that writers have with their subjects.
  Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system.
  Universities are economically parasitic, relying on external support.
  At the same time, the parasitic state-owned enterprises continue to suck the blood out of the economy.
  We can have many reasons for our conservational efforts - not all of which are parasitic on our own living standards and some of which turn precisely on our sense of values and of fiduciary responsibility.
  The second myth The Economist wanted do dispel was the misapprehension that blogs are essentially parasitic on other media.
  His parasitic exploitation of Ella does not stop until she is completely drained of memory, language, and finally, sanity.
  Fourthly, there has been extensive debate as to whether it is liberalism that generates the peace or whether, in a reversal of the causal chain, liberalism is parasitic upon the peace that is already in existence.
  Revisionism is an historical discipline made necessary by the fact that all States are governed by a ruling class that is a minority of the population, and which subsists as a parasitic and exploitative burden upon the rest of society.
  Even telemarketers aren't so parasitic, though their intrusiveness is often considered worse.
  One explanation for the existence of parasitic mating tactics may be that dominant males exclude subordinate males from using the bourgeois mating tactic.
  It also details the parasitic activities of individual officials who live a relatively privileged existence based on extortion, bribery and other forms of corruption.
  He and Carlyle relied heavily on the parasitic rhetoric.
  Such music fests do not exist outside of a parasitic capitalist and Mafia-styled exploitive capitalist paradigm that is financed by the American government with American tax payer money.
  In other words, the profits obtained by these institutions are the result of essentially parasitic activity.
  The lawyers, often personal injury lawyers, are jolted out of their parasitic and banal existence by the novelty of an innocent and deserving client.
  Wages could also be higher than elsewhere in the economy as the bloodsucking, parasitic capitalist is not there demanding his piece of the action.
  After the princes and their state had subordinated the church, sometimes in violent conflicts, it was allowed to keep its privileged and parasitic existence.
  Synonyms
  exploitative, parasitical
3. 1.3Phonetics (of a speech sound) inserted without etymological justification (e.g., the b in thimble); epenthetic.
  〔语音〕（没有词源根据的）插音的，增音的

Origin

Early 17th century: via Latin from Greek parasitikos, from parasitos ‘(person) eating at another's table’.

词汇	parasitic
释义	Definition of parasitic in English: parasitic adjective parəˈsɪtɪkˌpɛrəˈsɪdɪk 1(of an organism) living as a parasite. （生物体）寄生的 mistletoe is parasitic on trees 槲寄生是寄生在树上的。 Example sentencesExamples Many parasitic insects lay their eggs in fertilized ovules so that their young can feed on the starches, fats, and proteins within. In vitro infection of host roots by differentiated calli of the parasitic plant Orobanche was also achieved in O. ramosa. Genetic parentage analyses provide a powerful approach to answering a variety of questions about parasitic birds. His most influential and widely cited works concern the interactions between parasitic birds and their hosts, in particular the evolution of host defenses to brood parasitism. I never knew that mistletoe was a parasitic plant that grew off a host tree. In addition, Emberizids are hosts for brown-headed cowbirds, a parasitic species of bird that lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species. Cowbird nestlings were placed into nests prior to the hatching of host nestlings to simulate the shorter incubation periods characteristic of parasitic species. For example, in some of the parasitic species, the males infiltrate ants while the females take up residence in grasshoppers. Since viruses are parasitic on cellular life, the first life could not have been anything like a virus. The Bronzed Cowbird is an obligate brood parasitic species of songbird, ranging from the southern border region of the United States as far south as Central America. They say that the parasitic plant which grows on nettles is nationally scarce and grows on only 100 sites across the country. The microorganisms that Werren studies are parasitic bacteria that survive by changing the reproductive process in their hosts. While Epifagus and Orobanche totally lack chlorophyll and therefore photosynthetic ability, there are some genera of parasitic plants that appear to be in the process of losing the ability to photosynthesize. For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species? Some species are parasitic on insects, plants and animals, including man. Moreover, females with two parasitic species laid eggs later than those with only one parasitic species. In place of pesticides, organic growers employ biological controls such as predatory and parasitic insects and bacteria, all of which effectively control pests in growing flowers. Nevertheless, growing these parasitic plants in vitro is difficult, because of their dependence on a connection to hosts for normal development, and because of their specific germination requirements. Some facultative parasitic plants such as Rhinanthus minor appear to have functional photosynthetic apparatus and can grow without a host providing reduced carbon. We had to prune off the clade that includes all parasitic species from the tree before the analysis. 1.1 Resulting from infestation by a parasite. 寄生物感染的 mortality from parasitic diseases 寄生性病害的死亡率。 Example sentencesExamples I suspect that their electronic ‘portfolio’ of clinical questions would be more useful than sitting through conferences on parasitic diseases. Since then almost 30 years have passed and it is learnt that the control of parasitic diseases require sustained efforts from all partners. If parasites - or their eggs - are seen when a smear of stool is examined under the microscope, the child will be treated for a parasitic infestation. The most common symptoms encountered in patients with eosinophilia were fatigue, diarrhea, or skin lesions suspicious for parasitic infection. Malnutrition, parasitic infestations, maternal and child morbidity and drug abuse are more important priorities and reflect on the allocation of resources for mental health services. The goal of this study is to identify key environmental changes resulting from urbanization that influence outbreaks of parasitic diseases. We're talking here about a parasitic disease, so this is not a bacterium or a virus, it's a parasite that goes through different life cycles. It therefore becomes enlarged in some infective, parasitic, and blood diseases. On the other hand, pathological conditions are marked by gall-like swellings and vermiform borings on exoskeletons that are thought to have been caused by diseases or parasitic infestation. It is a protozoal parasitic disease prevalent worldwide, its prevalence varying according to dietary preferences in any country. An estimated 6 million people worldwide have taken ivermectin for various parasitic infestations. Let's now turn our attention to the subject of parasitic infestations of the CNS. Scabies is a contagious parasitic infection caused by infestation of the Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis mite. And certainly in developed countries there are plenty of cases of bacterial and viral, and parasitic disease that cannot be adequately described and explained at the time it occurs. Although older texts emphasized parasitic infestation, this is a rare cause of pruritus ani except for pinworms in children. Scabies and lice are examples of parasitic infestations. She has been involved with research and clinical aspects of the immunodiagnosis of parasitic diseases for 35 years. It is essential to consider both operational and economic feasibility of any intervention to control parasitic diseases apart from its effectiveness so as to make decisions more rationally. Public health agencies focused their activities on infectious diseases, especially vaccine preventable and endemic parasitic diseases. Of all the parasitic diseases, leishmaniasis is considered the most likely to succumb to vaccination. 2derogatory Habitually relying on or exploiting others. 〈贬〉过寄生生活的 attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries 对党的官员们寄生生活的抨击。 Example sentencesExamples The second myth The Economist wanted do dispel was the misapprehension that blogs are essentially parasitic on other media. After the princes and their state had subordinated the church, sometimes in violent conflicts, it was allowed to keep its privileged and parasitic existence. In other words, the profits obtained by these institutions are the result of essentially parasitic activity. Such music fests do not exist outside of a parasitic capitalist and Mafia-styled exploitive capitalist paradigm that is financed by the American government with American tax payer money. One explanation for the existence of parasitic mating tactics may be that dominant males exclude subordinate males from using the bourgeois mating tactic. Even telemarketers aren't so parasitic, though their intrusiveness is often considered worse. It also details the parasitic activities of individual officials who live a relatively privileged existence based on extortion, bribery and other forms of corruption. Wages could also be higher than elsewhere in the economy as the bloodsucking, parasitic capitalist is not there demanding his piece of the action. One of the many things the film is about is the essentially parasitic relationship that writers have with their subjects. Fourthly, there has been extensive debate as to whether it is liberalism that generates the peace or whether, in a reversal of the causal chain, liberalism is parasitic upon the peace that is already in existence. Political blogs need the press; they are parasitic on the flow of news. He and Carlyle relied heavily on the parasitic rhetoric. Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system. Revisionism is an historical discipline made necessary by the fact that all States are governed by a ruling class that is a minority of the population, and which subsists as a parasitic and exploitative burden upon the rest of society. At the same time, the parasitic state-owned enterprises continue to suck the blood out of the economy. We can have many reasons for our conservational efforts - not all of which are parasitic on our own living standards and some of which turn precisely on our sense of values and of fiduciary responsibility. The lawyers, often personal injury lawyers, are jolted out of their parasitic and banal existence by the novelty of an innocent and deserving client. Universities are economically parasitic, relying on external support. His parasitic exploitation of Ella does not stop until she is completely drained of memory, language, and finally, sanity. Synonyms exploitative, parasitical informal bloodsucking, sponging, freeloading 3Phonetics (of a speech sound) inserted without etymological justification (e.g. the b in thimble); epenthetic. 〔语音〕（没有词源根据的）插音的，增音的 Derivatives parasitical adjective He sat at a table chaotic with books and papers, his typewriter a lonely sentinel of order; in the room, people came and went, acolytes, aspirants and hangers-on, some immensely talented, others merely parasitical. Example sentencesExamples You never get the feeling that he loathes parasitical, state-welching fat cats in the way he loathes men whose only sin is to be overly willing to rush into burning buildings and rescue complete strangers. He needs to draw on other people's lives and there is something very parasitical about that. This claim often rides in parasitical fashion on the back of debunking claims - it can provide an explanation for why the speaker invests in their critique in the first place. On the third hand, it could be argued that a largely parasitical underclass living on welfare and crime thrives only in big cities and ‘get out the vote’ drives do end up with a lot of them voting Democrat. parasitically adverb ˌparəˈsɪtɪkliˌpɛrəˈsɪdək(ə)li They aren't journalism - indeed to be quite frank we bloggers parasitically feed off traditional journalism don't we? Example sentencesExamples Probably because the pose suggests that she's able to sit on her own, when in fact she is leaning parasitically on her Mama. In the tracking shot, the viewer becomes a ghostly guest moving parasitically along with the all-knowing camera as the space of the filmic world is mapped. In doing so, it revealed its weakness, prompting other nations to pick, parasitically, at America's weakness for their own short-term gains. The Fine Art tradition today does not live symbiotically with design: it lives parasitically off of the communicative and vital language established by design. Origin Early 17th century: via Latin from Greek parasitikos, from parasitos '(person) eating at another's table'. Rhymes analytic, anchoritic, anthracitic, arthritic, bauxitic, calcitic, catalytic, critic, cryptanalytic, Cushitic, dendritic, diacritic, dioritic, dolomitic, enclitic, eremitic, hermitic, lignitic, mephitic, paralytic, psychoanalytic, pyritic, Sanskritic, saprophytic, Semitic, sybaritic, syenitic, syphilitic, troglodytic Definition of parasitic in US English: parasitic adjectiveˌpɛrəˈsɪdɪkˌperəˈsidik 1(of an organism) living as a parasite. （生物体）寄生的 mistletoe is parasitic on trees 槲寄生是寄生在树上的。 Example sentencesExamples Cowbird nestlings were placed into nests prior to the hatching of host nestlings to simulate the shorter incubation periods characteristic of parasitic species. In addition, Emberizids are hosts for brown-headed cowbirds, a parasitic species of bird that lays its eggs in the nests of other bird species. The microorganisms that Werren studies are parasitic bacteria that survive by changing the reproductive process in their hosts. Moreover, females with two parasitic species laid eggs later than those with only one parasitic species. I never knew that mistletoe was a parasitic plant that grew off a host tree. For example, have allopatric populations of a parasitic species independently evolved egg or nestling mimicry of the same host species? Since viruses are parasitic on cellular life, the first life could not have been anything like a virus. In vitro infection of host roots by differentiated calli of the parasitic plant Orobanche was also achieved in O. ramosa. For example, in some of the parasitic species, the males infiltrate ants while the females take up residence in grasshoppers. His most influential and widely cited works concern the interactions between parasitic birds and their hosts, in particular the evolution of host defenses to brood parasitism. Some facultative parasitic plants such as Rhinanthus minor appear to have functional photosynthetic apparatus and can grow without a host providing reduced carbon. We had to prune off the clade that includes all parasitic species from the tree before the analysis. Some species are parasitic on insects, plants and animals, including man. They say that the parasitic plant which grows on nettles is nationally scarce and grows on only 100 sites across the country. Many parasitic insects lay their eggs in fertilized ovules so that their young can feed on the starches, fats, and proteins within. Genetic parentage analyses provide a powerful approach to answering a variety of questions about parasitic birds. Nevertheless, growing these parasitic plants in vitro is difficult, because of their dependence on a connection to hosts for normal development, and because of their specific germination requirements. The Bronzed Cowbird is an obligate brood parasitic species of songbird, ranging from the southern border region of the United States as far south as Central America. In place of pesticides, organic growers employ biological controls such as predatory and parasitic insects and bacteria, all of which effectively control pests in growing flowers. While Epifagus and Orobanche totally lack chlorophyll and therefore photosynthetic ability, there are some genera of parasitic plants that appear to be in the process of losing the ability to photosynthesize. 1.1 Resulting from infestation by a parasite. 寄生物感染的 mortality from parasitic diseases 寄生性病害的死亡率。 Example sentencesExamples An estimated 6 million people worldwide have taken ivermectin for various parasitic infestations. Of all the parasitic diseases, leishmaniasis is considered the most likely to succumb to vaccination. It therefore becomes enlarged in some infective, parasitic, and blood diseases. She has been involved with research and clinical aspects of the immunodiagnosis of parasitic diseases for 35 years. On the other hand, pathological conditions are marked by gall-like swellings and vermiform borings on exoskeletons that are thought to have been caused by diseases or parasitic infestation. It is a protozoal parasitic disease prevalent worldwide, its prevalence varying according to dietary preferences in any country. Although older texts emphasized parasitic infestation, this is a rare cause of pruritus ani except for pinworms in children. Scabies is a contagious parasitic infection caused by infestation of the Sarcoptes scabiei var hominis mite. If parasites - or their eggs - are seen when a smear of stool is examined under the microscope, the child will be treated for a parasitic infestation. I suspect that their electronic ‘portfolio’ of clinical questions would be more useful than sitting through conferences on parasitic diseases. Malnutrition, parasitic infestations, maternal and child morbidity and drug abuse are more important priorities and reflect on the allocation of resources for mental health services. The most common symptoms encountered in patients with eosinophilia were fatigue, diarrhea, or skin lesions suspicious for parasitic infection. It is essential to consider both operational and economic feasibility of any intervention to control parasitic diseases apart from its effectiveness so as to make decisions more rationally. Public health agencies focused their activities on infectious diseases, especially vaccine preventable and endemic parasitic diseases. Since then almost 30 years have passed and it is learnt that the control of parasitic diseases require sustained efforts from all partners. The goal of this study is to identify key environmental changes resulting from urbanization that influence outbreaks of parasitic diseases. We're talking here about a parasitic disease, so this is not a bacterium or a virus, it's a parasite that goes through different life cycles. And certainly in developed countries there are plenty of cases of bacterial and viral, and parasitic disease that cannot be adequately described and explained at the time it occurs. Scabies and lice are examples of parasitic infestations. Let's now turn our attention to the subject of parasitic infestations of the CNS. 1.2derogatory Habitually relying on or exploiting others. 〈贬〉过寄生生活的 attacks on the parasitic existence of Party functionaries 对党的官员们寄生生活的抨击。 Example sentencesExamples Political blogs need the press; they are parasitic on the flow of news. One of the many things the film is about is the essentially parasitic relationship that writers have with their subjects. Brahmins began to be described as cunning, parasitic exploiters and authors of the iniquitous caste system. Universities are economically parasitic, relying on external support. At the same time, the parasitic state-owned enterprises continue to suck the blood out of the economy. We can have many reasons for our conservational efforts - not all of which are parasitic on our own living standards and some of which turn precisely on our sense of values and of fiduciary responsibility. The second myth The Economist wanted do dispel was the misapprehension that blogs are essentially parasitic on other media. His parasitic exploitation of Ella does not stop until she is completely drained of memory, language, and finally, sanity. Fourthly, there has been extensive debate as to whether it is liberalism that generates the peace or whether, in a reversal of the causal chain, liberalism is parasitic upon the peace that is already in existence. Revisionism is an historical discipline made necessary by the fact that all States are governed by a ruling class that is a minority of the population, and which subsists as a parasitic and exploitative burden upon the rest of society. Even telemarketers aren't so parasitic, though their intrusiveness is often considered worse. One explanation for the existence of parasitic mating tactics may be that dominant males exclude subordinate males from using the bourgeois mating tactic. It also details the parasitic activities of individual officials who live a relatively privileged existence based on extortion, bribery and other forms of corruption. He and Carlyle relied heavily on the parasitic rhetoric. Such music fests do not exist outside of a parasitic capitalist and Mafia-styled exploitive capitalist paradigm that is financed by the American government with American tax payer money. In other words, the profits obtained by these institutions are the result of essentially parasitic activity. The lawyers, often personal injury lawyers, are jolted out of their parasitic and banal existence by the novelty of an innocent and deserving client. Wages could also be higher than elsewhere in the economy as the bloodsucking, parasitic capitalist is not there demanding his piece of the action. After the princes and their state had subordinated the church, sometimes in violent conflicts, it was allowed to keep its privileged and parasitic existence. Synonyms exploitative, parasitical 1.3Phonetics (of a speech sound) inserted without etymological justification (e.g., the b in thimble); epenthetic. 〔语音〕（没有词源根据的）插音的，增音的 Origin Early 17th century: via Latin from Greek parasitikos, from parasitos ‘(person) eating at another's table’.
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