Synonym: bloodsucking, epenthetic, leechlike, parasitical. Similar words: parasitism, parasite, paraphrasing, as far as I know, as it is, parasol, paraphrase, as far as I'm concerned. Meaning: [‚pærə'sɪtɪk(l)] adj. 1. relating to or caused by parasites 2. of or pertaining to epenthesis 3. of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another.
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31. It is transmitted by a blackfly which breeds in rivers and passes on minute parasitic worms from other infected humans.
32. The Anisakidae are ascaridoids whose adults are parasitic in a wide rage of animals, including marine mammals and birds.
33. Giardia lamblia is a protozoa, a single-celled animal, responsible for one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in the world.
34. They are parasitic on fish, feeding on the blood for three months before dropping off as miniature mussels.
35. Parasitic infections were high regardless of family size and appeared unrelated to birth order.
36. Parasitic behavior itself is a new territory for organisms to make a living in.
37. The vector of the parasitic worm is a tiny crustacean, Cyclops.
38. It contributes to the syndrome of parasitic gastroenteritis and only occasionally occurs in sufficient numbers to cause clinical disease on its own.
39. The evolution of parasitic relationships involves countless compromises and adjustments between the two partners.
40. The anthelmintics available for the treatment of bovine parasitic bronchitis are the modern benzimidazoles, levamisole or ivermectin.
41. Brood parasitic birds are becoming favoured examples in studies of coevolution.
42. The organisation's Chemical Synthesis Programme, launched in March 1982, aims to develop new drugs to treat parasitic diseases.
43. Comparative Biochemistry of Parasitic Helminths is a challenging assessment of current ideas in the field written by acknowledged world authorities.
44. Yet the largest group of fungi parasitic on insects and other arthropods cause their hosts only minor blemishes.
45. But in a few years it could find applications in the long-term treatment of parasitic diseases, and even as a contraceptive pill.
46. They seem to thrive on and exploit timing delays and parasitic currents.
47. It is not surprising that the mortality due to feather pecking, cannibalism and parasitic diseases can be disturbingly high.
48. By contrast, in the subtropics it is one of the most important causes of parasitic gastroenteritis.
49. This genus is the major cause of parasitic gastritis in ruminants in temperate areas of the world.
50. When the creature matures, the parasitic sperm cells eat out its gonads and replace them with themselves.
51. Ascariasis is infection with the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides.
52. Rusts Parasitic basidiomycete fungi of the order Uredinales.
53. The principle of eliminating parasitic inductance is firstly analyzed.
54. Disadvantage: It will cause various kinds of parasitic disease.
55. Larvae are parasitic on sheep.
56. Trichomonas parasitic in the human body can only urogenital.
57. Parasitic and nonparasitic cysts rarely occur in the spleen.
58. Parasitic vines that strangle the trees.
59. By definition(sentence dictionary), this way of life is parasitic.
60. Trichinosis is a zoonotic parasitic diseases.
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