Crossword clues for parasitical
parasitical
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parasitic \Par`a*sit"ic\ (p[a^]r`[.a]*s[i^]t"[i^]k), Parasitical \Par`a*sit"ic*al\ (p[a^]r`[.a]*s[i^]t"[i^]*kal), a. [L. parasiticus, Gr. ?: cf. F. parasitique.]
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Of the nature of a parasite; having the habits of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic. ``Parasitic preachers.''
--Milton.Syn: leechlike, bloodsucking.
(Bot. & Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to parasites; living on, or deriving nourishment from, some other living animal or plant. See Parasite, 2 &
Parasitic gull, Parasitic jager. (Zo["o]l.) See Jager. [1913 Webster] -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*sit"ic*al*ness, n.
Wiktionary
a. of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of a parasite; parasitic
WordNet
adj. relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection" [syn: parasitic]
of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence" [syn: parasitic, leechlike, bloodsucking]
Usage examples of "parasitical".
The Culture-instincts will always resist disease elements, whether parasitical, retarding, or distorting.
We had left the beach early in the morning, and after an uninterrupted, though at times difficult and dangerous ascent, during which we had never once turned our faces to the sea, we found ourselves, about three hours before sunset, standing on the top of what seemed to be the highest land on the island, an immense overhanging cliff composed of basaltic rocks, hung round with parasitical plants.
As old Plato might say, the Moles had a viable social order, even if it was basically parasitical.
Well, recently it has been admitted, that is to say, the revolutionists admit, a parasitical origin for these diseases, and in France and Germany there is an army looking for these parasites.
The encroachment on that set of rules has begun everywhere, like a parasite feeding on the edges of its host organism, because that's what the replacement set of rules is, the old parasitic greed of the kings and their henchmen, this system we call the transnational world order is just feudalism all over again, a set of rules that is anti-ecologic, it does not give back but rather enriches a floating international elite while impoverishing everything else, and so of course the so-called rich elite are in actuality poor as well, disengaged from real human work and therefore from real human accomplishment, parasitical in the most precise sense, and yet powerful too as parasites that have .
In this case, a parasitical resource is subverting the neural tissue of a Host organism from Austerity to use as its implementation and increase its own replicative complexity.
They suffer from a parasitical skin disease, like the so-called white elephants of India, and they do _not_ live a thousand years, and their black blood is _not_ an Elixir of Life, and if you touch them, your hair will _not_ fall out.