Modifying Another Word

• not: They are evidently not parasitic; their source of food is unknown.

• always: But surely the study of culture is always parasitic on history?

• essentially: The economics and the psychology of these elements is essentially parasitic in character.

• entirely: The plant is entirely parasitic on Nettles and feeds on their sap using especially adapted ' suckers ' .

• increasingly: It is an increasingly parasitic class, driven by its own short-term interests.

• partially: The plant itself is extraordinary, being partially parasitic.

Preposition: on

• plant: These are usually parasitic on aquatic plants or fish.

• animal: Many live in soil or in salt- or fresh- water; others are parasitic on animals and plants.

• one: Whereas false ministries like the cults and denominational liberalism are parasitic on authentic ones.

Modifies a noun

• nematode: Plant parasitic nematodes cause over $ 125 billion annual losses to world agriculture.

• wasp: However, parasitic wasps are quick to find the eggs.

• protozoon: This booklet illustrates the extent of parasitic protozoa in the British wild fauna.

• capacitance: Increasing switch size to reduce on resistance adds to the parasitic capacitance, thus slowing the operation.

• infestation: Lack of parasitic infestation might explain some of the increase in allergies during the past 30 years.

• helminth: This parasite must be considered one of the most pathogenic of the parasitic helminths.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Interest happens to be the income of a social group that has been known from time to time to become particularly parasitic.

Preposition: in

• rat: L3 larvae invasive. e.g. Nippostrongylus brasiliensis - parasitic in rats and mice.

• nature: The remaining classes of platyhelminthes are all parasitic in nature.