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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
- Living in a cave, fighting off the body parasites, gnawing the odd bone.p. 201.5
- A tiny parasitic wasp had invaded several ChickieNobs installations, carrying a modified form of chicken pox, specific to the ChickieNob and fatal to it.p. 216.1
There are no more uses of "parasitic" in Oryx and Crake.
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