Parasitic
[pærə'sɪtɪk] or [,pærə'sɪtɪk]
解释:
(adj.) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; 'a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses'; 'parasitic vines that strangle the trees'; 'bloodsucking blackmailer'; 'his indolent leechlike existence' .
(adj.) relating to or caused by parasites; 'parasitic infection' .
乔茜录入--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Alt. of Parasitical
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同义词及近义词：
a. Sycophantic, fawning, flattering, wheedling, servile, slavish, meanly submissive.
校对:米里亚姆
例句:
- That the small size of the egg is a real case of adaptation we may infer from the fact of the mon-parasitic American cuckoo laying full-sized eggs. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- Leucodore, clione and other borers, parasitic or domiciliary worms work into the shell, and instinctively the protecting nacreous fluid envelops the intruder. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Those creatures are parasitic. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Many bees are parasitic, and regularly lay their eggs in the nests of other kinds of bees. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- In some cases, however, the mature animal must be considered as lower in the scale than the larva, as with certain parasitic crustaceans. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- He shows that there are parasitic mites (Acaridae), belonging to distinct sub-families and families, which are furnished with hair-claspers. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- The increase of these flies, numerous as they are, must be habitually checked by some means, probably by other parasitic insects. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
校对:米里亚姆