2 uses
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Definition
of 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
- The vibrant, generous body that he had trained with such vigilance had shrunken until only the bones remained, draped in yellow skin, crawling with parasites.p. 175.9
- Foodborne parasites and pathogens made diarrhea almost ubiquitous.p. 197.6
There are no more uses of "parasitic" in Unbroken by Hillenbrand.
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