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What is a parasite?

What is a parasite? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pejorative) A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back. [from 16th c.]
  2. (biology) An organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
  3. (literary) A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc. [from 19th c.]
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Then he moved back in with his mother, sealing his fate and cementing his status as parasite and waster of indulgence and advantage.
Most of the patients had a parasite count of more than 10 percent, which is critical.
They then watched as sporozoites traversed Kupffer cells using a special process distinct from ordinary parasite locomotion.
Possible outcomes are given for a host adopting either the acceptor or rejector strategy when the parasite is a nonevictor.
It is made from the dried, pulverized bodies of a scale insect, Coccus ilicis, which is a parasite on an ilex oak, the kermes oak.
Masses of the parasite grow inside the krill, eat its organs, divide, and then burst out of their host's dead body in search of new victims.

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