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parasite

PAR'ASITE, n. [L. parasita; Gr. by, and corn.]

1. In ancient Greece, a priest or minister of the gods whose office was to gather of the husbandman the corn allotted for public sacrifices. The parasites also superintended the sacrifices.

2. In modern usage, a trencher friend; one that frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger on; a fawning flatterer.

3. In botany,a plant growing on the stem or branch of another plant and receiving its nourishment from it, as the mistletoe.


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PAR'ASITE, n. [L. parasita; Gr. by, and corn.]

1. In ancient Greece, a priest or minister of the gods whose office was to gather of the husbandman the corn allotted for public sacrifices. The parasites also superintended the sacrifices.

2. In modern usage, a trencher friend; one that frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger on; a fawning flatterer.

3. In botany,a plant growing on the stem or branch of another plant and receiving its nourishment from it, as the mistletoe.

PAR'A-SITE, n. [Fr. parasite; It. parassito; Sp. parasito; L. parasita; from Gr. παρασιτος; παρα, by, and σιτος, corn.]

  1. In ancient Greece, a priest or minister of the gods whose office was to gather of the husbandman the corn allotted for public sacrifices. The public storehouse in which this corn was deposited was called παρασιτον. The parasites also superintended the sacrifices. – Potter's Antiq.
  2. In modern usage, a trencher friend; one that frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger on; a fawning flatterer. – Milton. Dryden.
  3. In botany, a plant without the means of providing nutriment for itself, or of elaborating crude sap into proper sap, but obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs. A parasite is different from an epiphyte, – which see.
  4. In entomology, parasites are insects which in some stage of their existence, eat the bodies or the eggs of other insects and frequently destroy them.

Par"a*site
  1. 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.

    Thou, with trembling fear,
    Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st.     Milton.

    Parasites were called such smell-feasts as would seek to be free guests at rich men's tables. Udall.

  2. A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.

    (b)
  3. 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.

    (b)
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Parasite

PAR'ASITE, noun [Latin parasita; Gr. by, and corn.]

1. In ancient Greece, a priest or minister of the gods whose office was to gather of the husbandman the corn allotted for public sacrifices. The parasites also superintended the sacrifices.

2. In modern usage, a trencher friend; one that frequents the tables of the rich and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger on; a fawning flatterer.

3. In botany, a plant growing on the stem or branch of another plant and receiving its nourishment from it, as the mistletoe.

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