(noun.) an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host.
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双语例句
It was one of the parasite streets; long, regular, narrow, dull and gloomy; like a brick and mortar funeral. 查尔斯·狄更斯.小杜丽.
Farewell, dear Amelia--Grow green again, tender little parasite, round the rugged old oak to which you cling! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
The dependency of one organic being on another, as of a parasite on its prey, lies generally between beings remote in the scale of nature. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
Nor have you, O poor parasite and humble hanger-on, much reason to complain! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
The dark bean-shaped cells are the normal blood corpuscles, and the few speckled cells are those infested with the malarial parasites. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
The illustrations represented in Fig. 177 show the parasites that cause malaria, or fever and ague. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
Commencing his great work about 1865 with the investigation of the silk worm plague in France, he discovered it to be due to parasites, and checked it. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.