Explore Parasitic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like organism or being. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Parasitic meaning
- Of or pertaining to a biological or symbolic parasite.
- Drawing upon another organism for sustenance.
- Exploiting another for personal gain.
Synonyms of Parasitic
Using Parasitic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or pertaining to a biological or symbolic parasite. | Drawing upon another organism for sustenance. | Exploiting another for personal gain.
- Useful related words include: parasitical, organism, being, epenthetic.
- In the example corpus, parasitic often appears in combinations such as: the parasitic, of parasitic, and parasitic.
Context around Parasitic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Parasitic
- In this selection, "parasitic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, thousand, roundworms, worms and infections stand out and add context to how "parasitic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and other parasitic infections that and authority and parasitic powers large. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "parasitic" sits close to words such as aadhaar, actionable and adopts, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with parasitic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The serfs create value, the Financial Nobility is parasitic. (9 words)
Hotspots where the parasitic disease has been found include Bracknell, Windsor and Slough. (13 words)
Such illnesses include leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and strongyloidiasis, which are spread by insect bites or parasitic worms. (16 words)
The parasitic sector attaches onto the producing sector and begins sucking the lifeblood out of the producing sector, much like leeches that attach themselves to a cow and begin sucking blood out of the cow. (35 words)
Sharma, Carbon Clean’s CEO, says that his company’s solvent cuts energy costs by about a third, pushing the parasitic load of carbon capture using its technology down to around 20%. (32 words)
The women also receive nutrition supplements (iron, folic acid, vitamin A), preventative treatment for malaria and other parasitic infections that put a pregnancy at risk, as well as tetanus vaccination, he said. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
A potentially chronic condition, filariasis is caused by parasitic roundworms that can be transmitted by Aedes, Anopheles and Culex species of mosquitoes.
Hotspots where the parasitic disease has been found include Bracknell, Windsor and Slough.
Likely promised greater authority and parasitic powers, large numbers of drow have turned their backs on Lolth in favor of an Illithid future.
Parasitic, elusive, and emitting an overwhelming odor of putrefying flesh, —often called the corpse flower—has intrigued botanists for centuries.
Sharma, Carbon Clean’s CEO, says that his company’s solvent cuts energy costs by about a third, pushing the parasitic load of carbon capture using its technology down to around 20%.
Shion witnessed his coworker rapidly age and die because of a parasitic wasp that the government wished to keep secret.
Stacked up against those losses, the cost of a few thousand parasitic wasps can be a small price to pay for a non-chemical fly control.
Such illnesses include leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis and strongyloidiasis, which are spread by insect bites or parasitic worms.
The new study shows that a parasitic mutation can occur within a species and across a single generation, upending previous hypotheses that such transitions take thousands of years or longer.
The parasitic sector attaches onto the producing sector and begins sucking the lifeblood out of the producing sector, much like leeches that attach themselves to a cow and begin sucking blood out of the cow.
These parasitic insects can also be spread by birds, and have been shown to travel over 100 feet in a night, but usually live within eight feet of where people sleep.
The serfs create value, the Financial Nobility is parasitic.
The women also receive nutrition supplements (iron, folic acid, vitamin A), preventative treatment for malaria and other parasitic infections that put a pregnancy at risk, as well as tetanus vaccination, he said.
Yarshagumba, scientifically known as Cordyceps sinensis, is a parasitic fungus that infects caterpillars in the pristine meadows of Nepal’s high-altitude regions.
An international team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has found a family of natural compounds with potential as new and more effective treatments for parasitic worms.
Besnoitiosis, a parasitic protozoan infection common amongst possums, results in visible white nodules (cysts) around the mouth, ears and eyes, in addition to all of the vital organs.
Blood samples of patients infected with a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis contain hidden information that marks different stages of the disease.
Eventually, doctors confirmed that the man had developed an infection from a species of parasitic roundworms that can infest many different animals, humans and bears included.
However, no evidence was presented to show any of the infants contracted bacterial or parasitic infections linked to dirty water.
How to tell if you've been infected with cryptosporidium: Symptoms and warning signs of parasitic bug, who.
Common combinations with parasitic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the parasitic 14×
- of parasitic 12×
- and parasitic 9×
- parasitic infections 8×
- is parasitic 6×
- as parasitic 6×
- parasitic plant 5×
- are parasitic 5×
- by parasitic 4×
- parasitic worms 4×