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parasite Noun 1. an animal or plant that lives in or on another from which it obtains nourishment 2. a person who habitually lives at the expense of others; sponger [Greek para- beside + sitos grain] parasitic adj
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In the case of the misseltoe, which draws its nourishment from certain trees, which has seeds that must be transported by certain birds, and which has flowers with separate sexes absolutely requiring the agency of certain insects to bring pollen from one flower to the other, it is equally preposterous to account for the structure of this parasite, with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself. Here he was at least, and had been any time these past ten years, a sort of dismal parasite upon the foreigner in Paris. The house was overrun with ivy, its chimney being enlarged by the boughs of the parasite to the aspect of a ruined tower. |
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