Both Uses of
parasitic
in
Dune
- He brings pages, the Baron thought, and useless court lackeys, his women and their companions — hair-dressers, designers, everything …. all the fringe parasites of the Court.†
Book 3
- And he thought then about the Guild — the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed.†
Book 3 *
Definition:
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(parasite) a species that lives on (or in) another species and eats from it without providing return benefit
or:
a person who lives off others' efforts without providing return benefit to them