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Parasitical

Of the nature of a parasite; fawning for food or favors; sycophantic.

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Dependent 84% connected

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

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Dependent 84% connected

Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.

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Parasite 74% connected

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.

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Parasite 74% connected

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.

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Parasite 66% connected

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.

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Parasitic 92% connected

Alt. of Parasitical

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Clawback adjective · 78% connection

Flattering; sycophantic.

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Courtling noun · 78% connection

A sycophantic courtier.

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Cringe noun · 78% connection

Servile civility; fawning; a shrinking or bowing, as in fear or servility.

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Dermatophyte noun · 78% connection

A vegetable parasite, infesting the skin.

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Echinococcus noun · 78% connection

A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, bu…

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Ectoparasite noun · 78% connection

Any parasite which lives on the exterior of animals; -- opposed to endoparasite.

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Endoparasite noun · 78% connection

Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.; -- opposed to ectoparasite. See Entozo…

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Entophyte noun · 78% connection

A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.

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Epiphyte noun · 78% connection

A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.

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Favus noun · 78% connection

A disease of the scalp, produced by a vegetable parasite.

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Fawningly adverb · 78% connection

In a fawning manner.

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Fly verb · 78% connection

A parasite.

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Francisella noun · 78% connection

a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)

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Genus Francisella noun · 78% connection

a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)

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Glochidium noun · 78% connection

The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.

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Haematozoon noun · 78% connection

A parasite inhabiting the blood

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Helminth noun · 78% connection

An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.

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Income noun · 78% connection

That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; -- sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.…

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