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Significados de parasitic en inglés

Of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another.

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Of or pertaining to epenthesis.

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Examples for "parasitical"
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One was corrupt and powerful; the other was weak and parasitical.
The Mirrors of Washington
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The trunks of the trees, too, exhibit a similar parasitical vegetation.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
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Densely interwoven trees, shrubs, and parasitical climbers fought everywhere for possession of it.
A Voyage to Arcturus
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I would say that the secondary market, and especially touting, is a parasitical business.
The Guardian
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And yet the cow-bird finds this nest and drops her parasitical egg in it.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers
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You Bitch, Your bloodsucking fuck of a lawyer called me again today.
Man in the Middle
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There they enslave a couple of handsome earthlings with their vampirelike bloodsucking skills.
Wired
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And your captors are not just monsters but evil bloodsucking aliens.
The Tracey Fragments
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It suggests the legend of the mythical bloodsucking creatures was tied to medieval ignorance.
The Irish Times
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If Society can stand that sort of bloodsucking tailor's model, I guess I can.
The Avalanche: A Mystery Story
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The newcomer for an hour hung to the truck leechlike, without winning further recognition.
The Wrong Twin
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Before my parents stopped sending my allowance, I needed to reform my leechlike personality and escape this rotten hikikomori lifestyle.
Welcome to the N.H.K.
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It clung leechlike to chiffon of cloak and gown, and though Annesley tore at the yellow fingers, she could not loosen them.
The Second Latchkey
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He thought of Brawne, that brave woman, energy incarnate, lying helpless with that leechlike extension of the Shrike's evil growing from her skull.
The Hyperion Cantos

Organism.

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Uso de parasitic en inglés
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Schistosomiasis remains one of the most prevalent parasitic diseases in developing countries.
Pubmed
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The term 'neglected tropical diseases' predominantly refers to single-entity, mostly parasitic diseases.
Pubmed
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He sum up the evidence strongly in favor of their parasitic nature.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882
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Mitigation efforts varied widely; malaria was the most frequently tested parasitic disease.
Pubmed
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Ceruloplasmin expression is also evident during parasitic infection in few fish species.
Pubmed
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It's more common for researchers to call this behaviour parasitic, he says.
BBC
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Fortunately, I have a collaborator of incomparable skill in the parasitic Chalcidid.
The Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters o...
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There has always been a slightly parasitic quality to Özil's creative gifts.
The Guardian
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His life would have been free of its parasitic, Peter Pan quality.
The new yorker
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By keeping them deprived, London keeps them parasitic and in its pay.
The Guardian
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Mast cells and MDSCs are increased by parasitic infection and tumor growth.
Pubmed
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Reduction of various biological processes is a hallmark of the parasitic lifestyle.
Pubmed
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Schistosomiasis is a water-bourne parasitic disease endemic to Sichuan Province of China.
Pubmed
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While it may seem far-fetched, there is a parasitic infection called strongyloides.
Wired
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All parasitic trades, such as these, lower wages in the open market.
The Trade Union Woman
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It's as alien as a parasitic wasp seen under an electron microscope.
The Rhesus Chart
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