Parasitic Synonyms

părə-sĭtĭk
Of or characteristic of a parasite
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. parasitical
  2. bloodsucking
  3. leechlike
  4. freeloading
Of or pertaining to epenthesis
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. epenthetic

Words Related to Parasitic

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. dependence
  2. parasite
  3. nematode
  4. platyhelminthes
  5. root knot
  6. helminth
  7. monogenean
  8. saprophytic
  9. protozoon
  10. cestode
  11. filarial
  12. commensal
  13. protozoan
  14. arthropod
  15. free-living

Parasitic Sentence Examples

  • The parasitic cycle has been broken, and the insect is no longer infected.

  • Oxen, sheep, dogs, monkeys, bats, and probably horses also suffer from similar parasitic diseases.

  • The Nematoda which are parasitic during their whole life may similarly be divided into two classes - those which undergo their development in a single host, and those which undergo their development in the bodies of two distinct hosts.

  • With regard to the parasites, which are the actual cause of malaria in man, an account of them is given under the heading of Parasitic Diseases, and little need be said about them here.

  • The parasitic and free-living Nematodes are connected by transitional forms which are free at one stage of their existence and parasitic at another; they may be divided into two classes those that are parasitic in the larval state but free when adult, and those that are free in the larval state but parasitic when adult.

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