Meaning of PARASITIC

Pronunciation:			`paru'sitik
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Matching Terms:			parasitic jaeger, parasitic on included alg[ae].], parasitic plant, parasitic worm, parasitical, parasitically, parasiticidal, parasiticide, parasitism
Medical Dictionary
	Definition:		Having to do with or being a parasite. A parasite is an animal or a plant that lives on or in an organism of another species and gets at least some of its nutrients from it.
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		abject, accompanying, accordant, agreeing, all-devouring, all-engulfing, associate, associated, at one with, backscratching, beggarly, bloodsucking, bone-lazy, bootlicking, cadging, coacting, coactive, coadunate, coincident, collaborative, collective, collusive, combined, combining, commensal, concerted, concomitant, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conjoint, consilient, conspiratorial, cooperant, cooperative, coordinate, cowering, coworking, crawling, cringing, crouching, dilatory, doless, do-nothing, dronish, drony, easy, ecological, ecotopic, ergophobic, extortionate, faineant, fawning, flattering, footlicking, good-for-nothing, grabby, grasping, groveling, hangdog, harmonious, indolent, ingratiating, joint, kowtowing, laggard, lax, lazy, leechlike, lupine, mealymouthed, meeting, nonaggressive, obeisant, obsequious, on bended knee, predacious, predatory, procrastinative, prostrate, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, remiss, saprophytic, scrounging, sharkish, shiftless, slack, slothful, slow, sniveling, sponging, sycophantic, symbiotic, synchronous, synergetic, synergic, synergistic, timeserving, toadeating, toadying, toadyish, truckling, unenterprising, united, uniting, vulturine, vulturous, wolfish, work-shy