Meaning of طفیلی in English

Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.
of Circumnavigate
Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily.
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.
Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae.
Producing young by budding.
Producing sexual zooids by budding; -- said of the blastostyle of a hydroid.
Producing a cluster of branchlets from a larger branch; -- said of corals.
Producing young or fruit abundantly; fruitful; prolific.
To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate.
of Prorogue
Slumberous.

English usage of طفیلی