parasite

parasite is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.
2. noun. A plant obtaining nourishment immediately from other plants to which it attaches itself, and whose juices it absorbs; -- sometimes, but erroneously, called epiphyte.
3. noun. A plant living on or within an animal, and supported at its expense, as many species of fungi of the genus Torrubia.
4. noun. An animal which lives during the whole or part of its existence on or in the body of some other animal, feeding upon its food, blood, or tissues, as lice, tapeworms, etc.
5. noun. An animal which steals the food of another, as the parasitic jager.
6. noun. An animal which habitually uses the nest of another, as the cowbird and the European cuckoo.
7. noun. an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host
8. noun. a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage

   Synonyms: leech, sponge, sponger

Synonyms

leech, sponge, sponger

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in parasite:

aspirate, septaria

Common word forms

parasites

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