parasite : Idioms & Phrases


Egg parasite

  • (Zoöl.), any small hymenopterous insect, which, in the larval stage, lives within the eggs of other insects. Many genera and species are known.
Webster 1913

malaria parasite

  • noun parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans
    Plasmodium vivax; plasmodium.
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parasite yew

  • noun rare and endangered monoecious parasitic conifer of New Caledonia; parasitic on Falcatifolium taxoides
    Parasitaxus ustus.
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pond-scum parasite

  • noun an aquatic fungus of genus Synchytriaceae that is parasitic on pond scum
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