Meaning of परजीवी in English

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.
Alt. of Parasitical
Alt. of Paragogical
Of or pertaining to a change from the right form, as in the formation of a word from another by a change of termination, gender, etc.
Of or pertaining to parasites; parasitic.
An artificial group formerly made for parasitic insects, as lice, ticks, mites, etc.
A division of copepod Crustacea, having a sucking mouth, as the lerneans. They are mostly parasites on fishes. Called also Siphonostomata.
Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.
Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 & 3.
Anything used to destroy parasites.
The state or behavior of a parasite; the act of a parasite.
The state of being parasitic.
Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.

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