All 10 Uses of
parasitic
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- I personally set myself apart from the war on blood parasites.†
Chpt 1 *
- We have to boil our water because it comes from the stream, where parasites multiply in teeming throngs.†
Chpt 1
- Africa has parasites so particular and diverse as to occupy every niche of the body: intestines small and large, the skin, the bladder, the male and female reproductive tracts, interstitial fluids, even the cornea.†
Chpt 1
- If God had amused himself inventing the lilies of the field, he surely knocked His own socks off with the African parasites.†
Chpt 1
- I imagined honey-colored parasites celebrating in my golden-tinted organs as I alternately froze and burned.†
Chpt 5
- We spent nineteen days in the infirmary, swallowing a variety of specialized poisons, since we had intestinal parasites, fungus growing on our feet and forearms, and more than the usual degree of malaria.†
Chpt 5
- Now he was reported to be bearded, wild-haired, and struggling badly with malnutrition and parasites.†
Chpt 5
- They've risked Mobutu and every imaginable parasite in the backwater places where children were left to die or endure when the Underdowns and their ilk fled the country.†
Chpt 5
- When I'm nervous or sad I also fall prey to the awful itch from filaires, tiny parasites that crawl into your pores and cause a flare-up every so often.†
Chpt 5
- A parasite of humans that extinguished us altogether, you see, would quickly be laid to rest in human graves.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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
or:
a person who lives off others' efforts without providing return benefit to them