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    parasitic


    1. Fly parasites deposit their eggs inside immature fly pupae, the parasitic eggs hatch into larvae which feed on their hosts


    2. There are novel ways to get power, viral spy circuits in the hardware mask definition often get their power by rectifying electrical noise in the air around the circuit they're parasitic on


    3. So yeah, those masks were still in use when the Al-Harron wove its death spiral into Satan's World because the ones without the parasitic circuit hadn't been tested to work yet


    4. “Without a proper host species, most parasitic bacteria and viral life-forms quickly die in a new environment


    5. treated as one; dressed in rags, fed little, his energy drained from labor and from the parasitic device at his neck


    6. To survive, it requires workers to labour for the Administrators, for the parasitic royal class


    7. Initially they were impregnated without their knowledge while drugged and often kept in a mildly sedated state until they gave birth to their parasitic bundles of joy


    8. One is that psychopathy represents a frequency dependent socially parasitic strategy


    9. The Omjadda call this parasitic vein structure, Jadaraa Soo ( Jah Daa Raa Soo), and in ancient times referred to those humans who survived the transformation as Vam


    10. Serious parasitic infestations will be treated at the time of the exam

    11. Inside was a large tree that grew from the floor inside and straight into the air as if it were a parasitic creature that had burst through the body of its host


    12. Giving her some small, orphaned kisses in the hollow of her wounded hand, he opened up the most hidden passageways of his heart and drew out an interminable and lacerated intestine, the terrible parasitic animal that had incubated in his mar-tyrdom


    13. with a parasitic infection, or something of the sort


    14. They attach to living cells, inject their DNA, and replicate themselves with the host cell protein; often causing the host cell walls to burst; killing the cells and releasing the replicated viruses to repeat the cycle of parasitic reproduction and destruction


    15. An example of these aflatoxins is the one made by a parasitic fungus of rye called Ergot


    16. That was after the baneful land reforms of the British, which had already proved to be the last nail in the coffin of their parasitic life of leisure and luxury


    17. The cause is obstruction of the lymph vessels due to parasitic worms


    18. Note that this table does not include herbs that are largely used for parasitic infections of the intestines


    19. Both of these hearts, the virtual money pump and the organic ecolibrium, exist simultaneously and significantly overlap, with the former being a parasitic organism upon the latter, i


    20. This is like a body that does not allow illness to heal, but keeps itself infected until it becomes both cancer as well as the host, mutually parasitic and collectively terminal

    21. “These evolving systems of conspiracies for their own sake are Nisms: parasitic transganics that insinuate themselves into other systems to manipulate their host's acts towards their own nismatic ends, while benefiting from both the anonymity of the incognito secrecy and the publicly innocuous face of the infected host


    22. Some of these processes are parasitic and others


    23. It is a parasitic infection with


    24. The discovery of the one variety that was not poisonous by the Imperial court: was because they had already been poisoning each other for hundreds of years using this foul parasitic plant to kill each other… and by accident, found that one variety did NOT have the desired effect of killing whoever ate it when it was put into their food


    25. Parasitic symbiotes are not intelligent: they kill the host they depend on for their lives


    26. By lying dormant for months, even years, by synchronizing their parasitic auras to their hosts, they have managed to fool living people for millions of years


    27. The reason True Love is an exception is because nearly all living people are so filled by the negative energy of these parasitic filth, they are constantly surrounded by negative auras of energy


    28. The undead are a parasitic leech on all Life; they are unnatural parasites that need to be wiped out


    29. In the slow poisonous parasitic infiltration of human living bodies and souls by undead unspeakably evil things;: the tool and the machine has taken over the living humans who have been born into this worsening condition/state of evil


    30. All evil parasitic cultures which cannot keep on expanding eat themselves and turn on themselves and destroy themselves from within

    31. “You enjoy parasitic relationships with humans that were never permitted before


    32. Not to inherit by right of primogeniture, gavelkind or borough English, or possess in perpetuity an extensive demesne of a sufficient number of acres, roods and perches, statute land measure (valuation 42 pounds), of grazing turbary surrounding a baronial hall with gatelodge and carriage drive nor, on the other hand, a terracehouse or semidetached villa, described as Rus in Urbe or Qui si sana , but to purchase by private treaty in fee simple a thatched bungalowshaped 2 storey dwellinghouse of southerly aspect, surmounted by vane and lightning conductor, connected with the earth, with porch covered by parasitic plants (ivy or Virginia creeper), halldoor, olive green, with smart carriage finish and neat doorbrasses, stucco front with gilt tracery at eaves and gable, rising, if possible, upon a gentle eminence with agreeable prospect from balcony with stone pillar parapet over unoccupied and unoccupyable interjacent pastures and standing in 5 or 6 acres of its own ground, at such a distance from the nearest public thoroughfare as to render its houselights visible at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e


    33. ) "Popular lecturers are in their nature parasitic


    34. It struck Will at this moment that the man might be one of those political parasitic insects of the bloated kind who had once or twice claimed acquaintance with him as having heard him speak on the Reform question, and who might think of getting a shilling by news


    35. He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat


    36. Cup-shaped plants and cavities between the leaves of bromeliads (many of which are parasitic on the branches of tropical trees) often collect a reservoir of water


    37. It seems deserted, free of parasitic man, but this is not entirely so


    38. It might be thought that the amount of change which the various parts and organs pass through in their development from embryo to maturity would suffice as a standard of comparison; but there are cases, as with certain parasitic crustaceans, in which several parts of the structure become less perfect, so that the mature animal cannot be called higher than its larva


    39. I can thus only understand a fact with which I was much struck when examining cirripedes, and of which many other instances could be given: namely, that when a cirripede is parasitic within another cirripede and is thus protected, it loses more or less completely its own shell or carapace


    40. This is the case with the male Ibla, and in a truly extraordinary manner with the Proteolepas: for the carapace in all other cirripedes consists of the three highly important anterior segments of the head enormously developed, and furnished with great nerves and muscles; but in the parasitic and protected Proteolepas, the whole anterior part of the head is reduced to the merest rudiment attached to the bases of the prehensile antennae

    41. He shows that there are parasitic mites (Acaridae), belonging to distinct sub-families and families, which are furnished with hair-claspers


    42. The acquisition of a useless part can hardly be said to raise an organism in the natural scale; and in the case of the imperfect, closed flowers, above described, if any new principle has to be invoked, it must be one of retrogression rather than of progression; and so it must be with many parasitic and degraded animals


    43. Some species of Molothrus, a widely distinct genus of American birds, allied to our starlings, have parasitic habits like those of the cuckoo; and the species present an interesting gradation in the perfection of their instincts


    44. Hudson says it is probable that they are occasionally parasitic, for he has seen the young of this species following old birds of a distinct kind and clamouring to be fed by them


    45. The parasitic habits of another species of Molothrus, the M


    46. Many bees are parasitic, and regularly lay their eggs in the nests of other kinds of bees


    47. This case is more remarkable than that of the cuckoo; for these bees have not only had their instincts but their structure modified in accordance with their parasitic habits; for they do not possess the pollen-collecting apparatus which would have been indispensable if they had stored up food for their own young


    48. Some species of Sphegidae (wasp-like insects) are likewise parasitic; and M


    49. Fabre has lately shown good reason for believing that, although the Tachytes nigra generally makes its own burrow and stores it with paralysed prey for its own larvae, yet that, when this insect finds a burrow already made and stored by another sphex, it takes advantage of the prize, and becomes for the occasion parasitic


    50. In some cases, however, the mature animal must be considered as lower in the scale than the larva, as with certain parasitic crustaceans




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    Synonyms for "parasitic"

    bloodsucking leechlike parasitic parasitical epenthetic

    "parasitic" definitions

    relating to or caused by parasites


    of or pertaining to epenthesis


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