1 a small animal or plant that lives on or inside another animal or plant and gets its food from it:
fleas, lice and other parasites * an intestinal parasite of cattle
2 (disapproving) a person who always relies on or benefits from other people and gives nothing back:
He regards students as parasites on society.
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for parasite is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is parasite a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, parasite is tagged as noun.
Does parasite appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — parasite appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
